From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: lsmith@redhat.com
Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Source Window - pop-up over array elements
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 14:25:00 -0000
Message-id: <8766lzcsnn.fsf@creche.cygnus.com>
References: <3A0877D6.84031E6E@smith-house.org>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00152.html

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Smith <larry@smith-house.org> writes:

Larry> One bug report we have here says that highlighting "argv[0]"
Larry> and adding it to the watchlist results in adding "argv", not
Larry> "argv[0]" and that the latter should be correct.

Larry> Trying to add it sounds like a poorly-considered can of worms.
Larry> Should I quash this report, or can someone suggest a generic
Larry> and non-hacky way for the gdbtk code to magically become aware
Larry> of arrays in all supported languages?

gdb understands me if I type `p argv[0]'.
It seems to me that if I highlight some text in gdbtk and ask it to
display it, it ought to do the right thing in a language-sensitive way.

The utility of watching is greatly reduced if I can only watch things
that are in the subset of all languages gdbtk understands.  Probably
that amounts to raw variables and nothing else.

Or do I misunderstand?

Tom