Re: [cdt-dev] Freeze invisible GDB variable objects

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/20/2014 05:54 PM, Mikhail Khodjaiants wrote:
> On 20/08/2014 6:03 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > I think an alternative question is "is this TreeItem collapsed or not" - I recall writing scary code to detect this with CDI,
> > but I don't know how do to it with DSF.
>
> The code for CDI was really scary, but the DSF version you wrote for our commercial product seems to be OK. You can contribute it to CDT :-) .

Oh, I actually forgot I ported it over.

So yeah, we have a patch that is geared to big varobj trees, which uses -var-set-frozen to stop updates of subtrees
that are collapsed. So, for big data structures or for slow hardware registers, it makes a lot of difference.

Is there interest in having this upstream?

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Vladimir Prus
CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics
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