On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 13:07, André Pönitz <apoen...@t-online.de> wrote: > > Buy a debugger that can skip code that you didn't write. > > The point was that in a such a situation I, as user, would not even > try to step in when the call is marked with 'emit'. This 'emit' in > a line *is* valuable markup, that saves me time. > > That's unrelated to what the debugger would or could do if I did step in, > I just don't need to follow that path. > > [And apart from that: There's no need to *buy* such debugger, e.g. gdb's > 'skip' actually works]
It occurs to me that, in case Creator doesn't do that already, we could make its debugger UI to automatically tell the underlying debugger to skip moc-generated code, as a default. > > The committee shot down the proposal because > > 1) there are work-arounds to the problem, and we already use those > > work-arounds for similar > > issues with boost::signal > > 2) trying to avoid clashes with lowercase non-function-like macros is > > rather difficult > > 3) the scope of the problem is narrow > > 4) no existing code is broken > > Is that documented, perhaps with a bit more detail, somewhere? Not that I know of - the LWG issue hasn't been updated yet. Is there some particular detail that you're missing? _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
