Re: [boost] [optional] Making optional more debugger friendly

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 20:02:01

Jeffrey Faust a écrit :
> My only complaint about boost::optional is that it is very difficult to 
> see values in the debugger.

variant probably has the same problem.
I don't see why you would need to look at its content in the debugger 
anyway, it's a pretty safe tool.

> Well, I have a patch.  The change introduces a new private T* m_value 
> and protected method update_debug() which sets this variable.

I think you should just provide an alternative implementation that uses 
heap allocation instead of stack allocation.