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Re: [5/5] fix test suite for MI output
>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> writes:
Tom> It is not too hard to fix varobj to disable this new setting, if that is
Tom> preferable for some reason.
Keith> I really don't like this. UIs will now display arrays (what about
Keith> other aggregate types like struct pointers?) this way, and in the
Keith> context of varobj, it provides no additional information that the UI
Keith> isn't already providing users:
Keith> + my_array (int [10]) 0x12345678 <my_array>
Yeah, that happens for the CLI too.
Phony output:
(gdb) print my_array
$1 = <my_array> {1, 2, 3}
The place where it is an improvement is printing things that aren't
obviously globals. E.g., in gdb, printing an object that has a virtual
table, like objfile's struct sym_fns, will now nicely show the
definition.
My concern is more along the lines of whether this is going to mess up
the clients.
Tom