[Qt-creator] gdbmucros helper add dump classes

[André Pönitz]

On Thursday 15 October 2009 14:54:02 ext Rudenko Eugene wrote:
> And I have one more question.
> I have my Lib project and my custom classes with it.
> If I add this dumpers in gdbmacros helper then I need to link to my lib. It's not A good way.

Indeed.

We have a similar problem with the QObject dumpers that would
need private headers to access certain parts of the QObject structure.

The workaround I currently use is to have a dummy structure with 
identical layout and cast the "real" QObjectPrivate to this dummy
structure. This is very fragile, so it's nothing I should _recommend_.
But I think I can _mention_ it ;-)

> Maybe It's better to make some common interface for custom classes, I need to dump.

If that's possible, it not a bad plan.

> Or maybe realise some mechanism to embed some code to y custom classes to help 
> dumper understand this class ?

At least on Linux this might already work: Implement your dumper
in your library, declare it as "extern" in gdbmacros.cpp, and call
it from the big dispatcher switch in  handleProtocolVersion2and3().
> Do you plan to realise something in this direction and what
> recommendations you can get to me for this decision ?

I am currently indeed investigating options to make creating dumpers 
easier. The solutions I have so far are not as satifying as I'd like...

Regards,
Andre'