Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
I'm not against making things debugger-friendly, but not at the cost of performance. Also, I find the objections about having different layouts valid.
It would only be for a "debug" build--where the extra information would be usable, and where the user has made some explicit choice that performance is not as important as extra information. That's the idea behind a checked STL implementation, which will assert if it detects something invalid. The issue of different layouts is a problem. I had not considered that. Now that it's been brought up 3 times, I'm thouroughly aware of it ;)
Other than that, I know that at least GDB and MS debugger can be scripted and that it might be a different approach that is non-intrusive.
I have tried to modify autoexp.dat in the past, but have failed. I'll give it another try before looking for another solution. Thanks for the feedback, Jeff Faust