Re: -stack-list-locals and children

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>]

Niko Sams wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> -stack-list-locals doesn't return an numchild element. How can the IDE
> know if a local
> is has children?
> 
> If there are children, they are listed in value:
> ^done,locals=[{name="list",value="QList = {[0] = \"hello\"}"}]
> 
> Is it a good idea to parse the value with an regular expression to
> find out if there are children?
> 
> Or is there a better way to get numchild?

I think the right approach is a command that creates and returns varobjs
for locals.

- Volodya