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cpp-debug: show variables in the 'memory view' #111
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In theory, we could have problems reading addresses as JS numbers, since JS numbers don't have full 64 bits precision. This patch makes use of the 'long' library, which stores 64-bit numbers as two 32-bit halves. Signed-off-by: Vincent Fugnitto <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Simon Marchi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Maréchal <[email protected]>
This patch makes it so we hightlight the local variables of the current frame in the memory view. The idea is simple, we get the size and address of all locals of the current frame through GDB (sizeof(foo) and &foo). If the bytes backing these variables are in the scope of the memory view, we highlight them with a different color for each variable. Signed-off-by: Simon Marchi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Maréchal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Vincent Fugnitto <[email protected]>
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Oct 1, 2020
It seems to work for me on Firefox 80.0.1 (64-bit). There are many general issues with the memory view though. One I've noticed is that the view does not seem to refresh when execution stops, e.g. after stepping the debugger. So I guess the memory view should potentially be behind an |
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Closing, the changes are no longer necessary thanks to #119 :) |
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What it does
The following pull-request adds support for display variables in the memory view:
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