Fwd: GDB Variables/Watches

[Niko Sams]

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uploaded the patch here:
www.vivid-planet.com/upload/dbg.diff

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Niko Sams <niko.sams at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:30
Subject: Re: GDB Variables/Watches
To: KDevelop Developer Mailinglist <kdevelop-devel at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de>


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:10, Vladimir Prus<ghost at cs.msu.su> wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009 Niko Sams wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The main missing part of our current gdb debugger is a properly
>> working variable view.
>>
>> I took the qt-creators implementation of Watches (how they call them)
>> and started porting it to kdevelop.
>> Including splitting up debugger independent stuff into the platform.
>> It compiles and locals are shown correctly during debugging.
>
> I doubt this is possible without GDB changes. Can you send a patch?
attached. (with a lot of disabled code, just to prove it's working...)

>
>> But still a long way to go.
>>
>> Before I put more time into this I want to ask what you think about it.
>
> Well, what exactly qt-creator Watches are?
Locals, user added watches and tooltips.

Niko