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author | hjk <qthjk@ovi.com> | 2012-11-17 21:35:02 +0100 |
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committer | Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@digia.com> | 2012-11-20 14:33:03 +0100 |
commit | 2c7f0cb8281f2898b33d84608597f900c81e80d9 (patch) | |
tree | 93ba4307e26c78c6296fca6dcbce56f3e3084434 /doc | |
parent | 216db6320cd37393a39de68c3ac1d24c03979378 (diff) |
debugger: mention drawbacks of using putCallItems in dumpers
Change-Id: I8f93113d54f9a696ca80661efd4d5e11872ea622
Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/debugger/creator-debugger.qdoc | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |