Re: Source Window - pop-up over array elements

[Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Smith <larry@smith-house.org> writes:

Larry> One bug report we have here says that highlighting "argv[0]"
Larry> and adding it to the watchlist results in adding "argv", not
Larry> "argv[0]" and that the latter should be correct.

Larry> Trying to add it sounds like a poorly-considered can of worms.
Larry> Should I quash this report, or can someone suggest a generic
Larry> and non-hacky way for the gdbtk code to magically become aware
Larry> of arrays in all supported languages?

gdb understands me if I type `p argv[0]'.
It seems to me that if I highlight some text in gdbtk and ask it to
display it, it ought to do the right thing in a language-sensitive way.

The utility of watching is greatly reduced if I can only watch things
that are in the subset of all languages gdbtk understands.  Probably
that amounts to raw variables and nothing else.

Or do I misunderstand?

Tom