> On Jul 19, 2021, at 6:24 PM, Vadim Chugunov <vadi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 6:02 PM Jim Ingham <jing...@apple.com> wrote:
> You can control whether you want data-formatters on "class Foo" to also match
> "class Foo *" and "class Foo &" using the --skip-pointers and
> --skip-references options respectively.
> So this part is clearly is by design.
>
> As for what the formatter gets passed, your formatter has chosen to see
> values that are pointers to the type by not passing --skip-pointers, so it
> makes sense to pass it
> the pointer - which it after all asked for. I can't see a strong enough
> argument either way to want to change the way it currently works, since we
> might break other people's uses of it.
>
> Certainly. I just wish the documentation were more explicit about this
> quirk. This behavior is especially confusing because the single indirection
> case usually works, since pointer.GetChildMemberWithName('...') transparently
> dereferences. It starts breaking only at pointer-to-pointer-to-type.
Feel free to add something you would have found helpful to the documentation.
Jim
>
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