Author: enrico
Date: Tue Oct 8 16:07:22 2013
New Revision: 192235
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=192235&view=rev
Log:
Tweak documentation for formats in categories
Modified:
lldb/trunk/www/varformats.html
Modified: lldb/trunk/www/varformats.html
URL:
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/www/varformats.html?rev=192235&r1=192234&r2=192235&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- lldb/trunk/www/varformats.html (original)
+++ lldb/trunk/www/varformats.html Tue Oct 8 16:07:22 2013
@@ -48,14 +48,15 @@
style="font-style: italic;">filters</span>, <span
style="font-style: italic;">synthetic children</span>.</p>
- <p>To reflect this, the <b>type</b> command has four
- subcommands (plus one specific for <i>categories</i>):<br>
+ <p>To reflect this, the <b>type</b> command has five
+ subcommands:<br>
</p>
<p><code>type format</code></p>
<p><code>type summary</code></p>
<p><code>type filter</code></p>
<p><code>type synthetic</code></p>
+ <p><code>type category</code></p>
<p>These commands are meant to bind printing options to
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@
the default choices.<br>
</p>
- <p>Each of the commands has four subcommands available:<br>
+ <p>Each of the commands (except <code>type category</code>) has
four subcommands available:<br>
</p>
<p><code>add</code>: associates a new printing option to one
or more types</p>
@@ -1193,7 +1194,7 @@ By default, LLDB will not show you the r
<li><a
href="http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon/reference/CoreServicesReferenceCollection/_index.html";><code>CoreServices</code></a>:
CS classes
<li><code>VectorTypes</code>: compact
display for several vector types
</ul>
- If you want to use a custom category for your
formatters, all the <code>type ... add</code> (except for <code>type format
add</code>),
+ If you want to use a custom category for your
formatters, all the <code>type ... add</code>
provide a <code>--category</code>
(<code>-w</code>) option, that names the category to add the formatter to.
To delete the formatter, you then have to
specify the correct category.</p>
<p>Categories can be in one of two states:
enabled and disabled. A category is initially disabled,
@@ -1242,9 +1243,9 @@ By default, LLDB will not show you the r
<div class="post">
<h1 class="postheader">Finding formatters 101</h1>
<div class="postcontent">
- <p>While the rules for finding an appropriate format for a
- type are relatively simple (just go through typedef
- hierarchies), searching other formatters goes through
+ <p>Searching for a formatter
+ (including formats, starting in SVN rev <a
href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=revision&revision=192217";>r192217</a>)
+ given a variable goes through
a rather intricate set of rules. Namely, what
happens is that LLDB
starts looking in each enabled category,
according to the order in which
they were enabled (latest enabled first). In
each category, LLDB does
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