Re: what is this "I"?
Re: what is this "I"?
- Subject: Re: what is this "I"?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:45:36 -0800
- Thread-topic: what is this "I"?
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:44:01 -0800, Chris Espinosa <email@hidden> said:
>On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>
>> Sometimes a rectangle will appear around a term or line in Xcode with a
>> little "i" in a circle off to its left. What is this little "i"? It seems to
>> invite being clicked on (if you can get it to stay in existence long
>> enough), but clicking on it does nothing (except to make it vanish).
>
>While debugging, if you select an expression (such as a property access or a
method call) and hover over the selected expression, the Evaluate symbol will
appear. If you move over to that symbol and click on it (it's admittedly a
little fussy) the expression will be evaluated and the result displayed in a
debugger Data Tip.
>
>It's the same as entering the selected expression in the Expressions window or
using p <expr> or po <expr> at the gdb command line.
>
>Sometimes gdb doesn't have the required data-type information to evaluate the
expression, so it fails silently.
But the "i" appears when not paused, and when not running in Debug mode. Yet
surely these are situations when Xcode should *know* that gdb can't possibly
have any information. Is this a bug? m.
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