[Bug mi/31063] New: Feature request: print raw types/omit types in -var-list-children

[Bug mi/31063] New: Feature request: print raw types/omit types in -var-list-children

[dmitry.neverov at jetbrains dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31063

            Bug ID: 31063
           Summary: Feature request: print raw types/omit types in
                    -var-list-children
           Product: gdb
           Version: 13.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: mi
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: dmitry.neverov at jetbrains dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

-var-list-children replace_typedefs() in type names which makes it slow when
debug info is big (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30520).

When type_print() uses type_print_raw_options instead of default_ptype_flags in
typeprint.c the command is fast again. But there is no option to make it use
type_print_raw_options from gdb/mi.

Please add an option to use type_print_raw_options for types in the gdb/mi
output. And also an option to omit types completely - it is useful when gdb
frontend doesn't show types at all.

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[Bug mi/31063] Feature request: print raw types/omit types in -var-list-children

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31063

Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |tromey at sourceware dot org
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2023-11-14
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
Seems reasonable.
Note though that varobj doesn't get a lot of love.

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[Bug mi/31063] Feature request: print raw types/omit types in -var-list-children

[dmitry.neverov at jetbrains dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31063

--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Neverov <dmitry.neverov at jetbrains dot com> ---
> Note though that varobj doesn't get a lot of love.

What is the preferrable way to do that in a gdb frontend? Python API?

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[Bug mi/31063] Feature request: print raw types/omit types in -var-list-children

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31063

--- Comment #3 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
If you're using MI, then AFAIK varobj is the way to go.
I just mean, the varobj code is kind of gross and some parts
of the design are bad; and nobody really works actively on it.
You could maybe get away with custom Python commands now.
We pretty much took that approach for DAP.

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