Re: [cdt-dev] Cannot add Global variables in DSF debug session

[Elena Laskavaia <elaskavaia@xxxxxxx>]

> Not sure I understand what you mean.
> In this case, the expression view would show the globals
> (as chosen by the user) while the variables view would show 
> the locals.
>
> And if you have duplicate between views, the caching will
> keep things efficient.
If I use expression view I put not only globals there but some other expressions too,
anyways this one if not that important.

> But you loose space.
>
> > Plus this two views have different set of action. Some stuff 
> > you cannot do with expressions view, such as change value, 
> > cast and change format...
>
> With DSF, the expressions view allows to change value and cast
> from the expressions view. 
That's nice.

In fact we don't have casting
> in the variables view (yet? :-)).  As for the format, there
> is a details pane that shows all formats.

Details pane show all formats? Like dec and hex at the same time?

> > Would be nice if you same UI/model for CDI and DSF and allow 
> > user to add customer global vars, because current way of 
> > doing it in CDI missing some and cannot get
> > globals from shared libraries for example...
>
> But still, for space saving, and to get a list of globals
> automatically, it probably would be nice to support global 
> variables in DSF-GDB too.  But it would require a bit of effort.

That is what I meant, DFS should supports it too and re-use same UI code except global vars provider for this dialog.


> Marc
>
>
> > Marc Khouzam wrote:
> > >  
> > > Hi,
> > >  
> > > > Hi All
> > > > While debugging an  application using  GDB DSF CreateProcess  
> > > > Launcher  I noticed that  "add global variables" action in  
> > > > variables view is disabled .
> > > DSF-GDB does not support displaying global variables in the 
> > > variables view (yet?). See
> > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=219040
> > >
> > > You can use the expressions view to show the global variables
> > > you are interested in.
> > >
> > > Marc
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