[Qt-creator] Qt creator, gdb and anonymous unions.

[André Pönitz]

On Wednesday 17 February 2010 14:14:59 ext paulo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the py script now works for nested anonymous unions, but apparently the 
> hash used in the process (inconveniently) sorts the names.
> I think it would be better to keep the groupings. (just remove the sorting)
> ex:
> 
> struct S {
>     union {
>         struct { float a, z; };
>         struct { float b, y; };
>     };
> } s;
> 
> sould be formatted as:
> $1 +
>      +-+a
>       |  +z
>       |
>      +-+b
>          +x
> 
> and not
> $1 +
>      +a
>      +b
>      +y
>      +z
> 
> Cheers,
> Paulo

Feel free to submit a patch ;-)

It's not really straight-forward. You'd need to 'invent' names for the unnamed 
parts and recognize them again when asked by the Gui to expand them.

It did not seem worth the trouble for such a corner case.

Well, when I think about it, one might generate the full hierarchy in one go.

Andre'