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Bug 322363

Summary:	[pretty printers] Support for varobjs changing type and/or name
Product:	[Tools] CDT	Reporter:	Jens Elmenthaler <jens.elmenthaler>
Component:	cdt-debug-dsf-gdb	Assignee:	Project Inbox <cdt-debug-dsf-gdb-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Jonah Graham <jonah>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pawel.1.piech
Version:	8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:	302121
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Description Jens Elmenthaler

2010-08-11 10:16:20 EDT

Build Identifier: CDt 8.0

Currently, changing the type/name/display hint of a varobj does not
work well with the gdb. However, with pretty printers, there are scenarios where this could make sense (not very likely right now, that's why a nice to have).

There are two junit test cases that are prepared to handle those cases:
PrettyPrintingTests.testUpdatingTypeName
PrettyPrintingTests.testDisplayHintChange

These tests fail with current gdb's. Looking at the reason, it seems that the gdb folk did not have such a scenario in mind. So it's also not supported by the current implementation of DSF GDB.

Turning this feature one, would have to start with bugzilla entries for gdb.

Reproducible: Always