Re: GDB C plugin system, and STL container viewer as an example

[Vincent Benony <vbenony at nordnet dot fr>]

> I don't see how you report that fact that the number of children of a
> varobj has changed. Without that, I'm not sure how useful MI display
> of vectors is. Am I missing something?
> 
> - Volodya

this is done by lines 1157 to 1166 of varobj.c


      if (plugins_type_handled(varobj_get_gdb_type(*varp)))
      {
          int new_childs = plugins_get_num_children(*varp);
          if (new_childs != (*varp)->num_children)
          {
              (*varp)->num_children = new_childs;
              (*varp)->children = varobj_list_children (*varp);
              VEC_safe_push (varobj_p, result, *varp);
          }
      }


I evaluate the number of children at each update, and I compare with the
current number of childs stored in the varobj structure, if different,
object is added to update list.

It seems to work well into KDevelop and Insight/GDB, ie if I step in my
source code, I can see children items beeing added at each push_back.

Only Eclipse/CDT has a problem handling a vector ïgoing from 0 to 1
child (child is not displayed, but Eclipse say that number of children
has changed, displaying the correct number ; seems like an Eclipse bug),
but it works when going from 1 to 2 children, or more...