[gvd-devel] Re: Some problem with GVD

Arnaud Charlet charlet@ACT-Europe.FR
Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:38:02 +0100


> During debugging some programs (especially windows - API programms) there is
> need to convert some integer value (LPARAM) to pointer to some record. Is it
> possible to change the type name of some value to make possible to see the
> record pointed by the value?

All the conversions that the underlying debugger (gdb here) can do,
caan also be used in GVD, so you can display such items using the same
gdb syntax.

> Sometimes it is nice to view some variable in decimal format but sometimes
> in hex format.

You can do it currently using the gdb syntax, but a menu could indeed be
added to do this automatically.

Arno