Behaviour of invalid varobjs
Vladimir Prus
ghost@cs.msu.su
Sun Mar 18 10:40:00 GMT 2007
I think current mainline does something strange
about varobjs that cannot be evaluated:
-var-create null_ptr * **0
^done,name="null_ptr",numchild="0",value="0",type="int"
(gdb)
-var-update null_ptr
^done,changelist=[{name="null_ptr",in_scope="false"}]
First, the value of "**0" is not 0, in fact there's no value at all.
Second, given that nothing was changed between the two commands,
it's strange that 'null_ptr' is mentioned in -var-update.
Before I go changing code, do everybody agree that:
1. The output of -var-create should either have no "value"
field at all, or value="", as is used in some other context.
2. The output of -var-update should not include anything.
Also, we probably should include in_scope="false" in output of
-var-create, but I'm not quite sure.
Comments?
- Volodya
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