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authorhjk <qthjk@ovi.com>2012-11-17 21:35:02 +0100
committerLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@digia.com>2012-11-20 14:33:03 +0100
commit2c7f0cb8281f2898b33d84608597f900c81e80d9 (patch)
tree93ba4307e26c78c6296fca6dcbce56f3e3084434 /doc
parent216db6320cd37393a39de68c3ac1d24c03979378 (diff)
debugger: mention drawbacks of using putCallItems in dumpers
Change-Id: I8f93113d54f9a696ca80661efd4d5e11872ea622 Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@digia.com>
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/debugger/creator-debugger.qdoc7
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diff --git a/doc/src/debugger/creator-debugger.qdoc b/doc/src/debugger/creator-debugger.qdoc
index bb0e7d9041..cec2fb0592 100644
--- a/doc/src/debugger/creator-debugger.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/debugger/creator-debugger.qdoc
@@ -1068,7 +1068,12 @@
\o \gui{putCallItem(self, name, value, func, *args)} -
Uses GDB to call the function \c func on the value specified by
- \a {value} and output the resulting item.
+ \a {value} and output the resulting item. Use \c{putCallItem}
+ only if there is no other way to access the data.
+ Calls cannot be executed
+ when inspecting a core file, they are expensive to execute
+ and have the potential to change the state of the debugged
+ program.
\o \gui{putItem(self, value)} - The "master function", handling
basic types, references, pointers and enums directly, iterates