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Re: adding support for ptype to MI
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- To: Rick Moseley <rmoseley at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Project Archer <archer at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:13:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: adding support for ptype to MI
- References: <48A49A5C.5000900@redhat.com>
Rick Moseley wrote:
"I think my main problem with type printing in MI is that there is no
way in MI today to get a description of a type returned as a "serialized
object". By serialized object I mean each type should be represented in
a hierarchical way so that the UI can represent it as a tree to the
user, letting her browse the type fields and giving her a chance to
drill down/up there. A bit like what you get when you do
"-data-evaluate-expression <variable-name>" in MI.
I'm afraid I don't understand what the problem is. Varobj certainly
provides a hierarchical view of variables, and that includes type
information.
Is that developers want just type information (e.g., for a type
browser/inspector kind of thing)? In which case I would expect
"-var-create - * (TYPE)0" to work. Alas, I see that is now broken.
Probably not very difficult to implement/fix. When I originally wrote
varobj (for Insight -- not what gdb pilfered), it was designed to
handle this usage.
Keith