Author: jingham
Date: Fri Dec 4 16:51:19 2015
New Revision: 254790
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=254790&view=rev
Log:
Make it clear how you would get the pointee out of an SBValue with
GetType().IsPointerType() returns true.
Modified:
lldb/trunk/include/lldb/API/SBValue.h
lldb/trunk/scripts/interface/SBValue.i
Modified: lldb/trunk/include/lldb/API/SBValue.h
URL:
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/include/lldb/API/SBValue.h?rev=254790&r1=254789&r2=254790&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- lldb/trunk/include/lldb/API/SBValue.h (original)
+++ lldb/trunk/include/lldb/API/SBValue.h Fri Dec 4 16:51:19 2015
@@ -204,7 +204,11 @@ public:
/// pointer to a 'Point' type, then the child at index zero will be
/// the 'x' member, and the child at index 1 will be the 'y' member
/// (the child at index zero won't be a 'Point' instance).
- ///
+ ///
+ /// If you actually need an SBValue that represents the type pointed
+ /// to by a SBValue for which GetType().IsPointeeType() returns true,
+ /// regardless of the pointee type, you can do that with
SBValue::Dereference.
+ ///
/// Arrays have a preset number of children that can be accessed by
/// index and will returns invalid child values for indexes that are
/// out of bounds unless the \a synthetic_allowed is \b true. In this
Modified: lldb/trunk/scripts/interface/SBValue.i
URL:
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/scripts/interface/SBValue.i?rev=254790&r1=254789&r2=254790&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- lldb/trunk/scripts/interface/SBValue.i (original)
+++ lldb/trunk/scripts/interface/SBValue.i Fri Dec 4 16:51:19 2015
@@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ public:
/// the 'x' member, and the child at index 1 will be the 'y' member
/// (the child at index zero won't be a 'Point' instance).
///
+ /// If you actually need an SBValue that represents the type pointed
+ /// to by a SBValue for which GetType().IsPointeeType() returns true,
+ /// regardless of the pointee type, you can do that with the
SBValue.Dereference
+ /// method (or the equivalent deref property).
+ ///
/// Arrays have a preset number of children that can be accessed by
/// index and will returns invalid child values for indexes that are
/// out of bounds unless the \a synthetic_allowed is \b true. In this
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