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Re: memory address ranges (-var-create)
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:01:45AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Would it work for your front end to create a varobj for "(char[7] *)
> > str" where it computes the length itself?
> >
> > (gdb) p *(char[7] *) rl_prompt
> > $13 = "(gdb) "
>
> That creates a child for each character, right? I guess then the front end
> would have to put them all together again to form a string.
Doesn't it have to anyway? I don't know how strings work in MI.
> > If that's what you want, we might be able to come up with a smarter way
> > to handle the special string case, or do it automatically.
>
> Insight seems to work even if you increase the length of the string with
> realloc. Could it handle this case too?
I have no idea; I don't know how the Insight bits work/worked. Sorry.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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