Add a way to show variables in hex

[hrw]

Logger/Tracker are nice but "6871947673600" is less readable than 0x64000000000 value.

[hrw]

Any way to switch dec/hex in variable views. Arguments, Locals etc.

[epasveer]

Yes, there might be. gdb has a global setting for all variables views. I think I can add a toggle somewhere/somehow.

Let me think on it.

[epasveer]

I saw a feature of gdb to "display" a variable using a specified type. Seer's "tracker" is similar to gdb's "display". I think it would be good to have "tracker" to have the same behavior. This likely means using the "mi" 'varobj' api to talk to gdb.

[mark4th]

it should be able to display this variable in hex, that one in octa, this one in binary and that one over there in decimal all at the same time. not a global settiong that displayes all variables in the same base.

Memory and registers should always be displayed in hex, imho displaying variables should always default to hex unless the user overrides it. After 40 years as a software engineer it has become increasingly apparant to me that the vast majority of values make more sense logically when displayed in hex. VERY VERY few exceptions to this that I have seen.