Locals update in debugger

[Leon Pollak]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:55, Leon Pollak wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have the remote connection to the target while debugging my
> > application. Sometimes making step takes significant time. This makes me
> > think that "Locals" values in "Variables" tab are read back from the
> > target each time I make a step.
> > Now, if, for example, "this" is small, I do not see any time delay. But
> > if it is big, then it takes a noticeable time.
> >
> > If so, I should like to suggest not to expand "Locals" content by
> > default. This will be useful also from another point of view: for
> > example, if there is a pointer pointing to some hardware FIFO, expanding
> > it will cause HW to loose data.
>
> Current gdb has functionality to avoid reading some variables --
> incidentally, developed exactly to prevent reading various FIFO buffers on
> each step.
>
> I'd just need to update KDevelop to use that.
> - Volodya
Thanks.
Does this means that you accept the suggestion to expand content only by user 
request? This will significantly simplify my debugging, as my link speed is 
slow...:-(

Thanks.
-- 
Leon