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Bug 268866 - Debugger variable hints: show dec | hex for numeric types
Summary: Debugger variable hints: show dec | hex for numeric types
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: cnd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Debugger (show other bugs)
Version: Dev
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Maria Tishkova
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Reported: 2016-11-07 07:38 UTC by mariusz_m
Modified: 2016-11-07 07:41 UTC (History)
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Description mariusz_m 2016-11-07 07:38:24 UTC 
Hi,

Could you please extend existing small yellow hints available during debug?
Currently for numeric types only decimal value is shown. It should be ease to display any numerical value in form "varname | 12345 | 0x3039".

Also, please treat char type as numeric. It is base for uint8_t used as number, not character representation. 
For char and wchar_t the hint could look like this: "varname | 65 | 0x41 | 'A'".

The same could be also applied to the Variables window, however the variable editing feature may be broken. There is an option to display values as decimal OR hexadecimal, but in my opinion it is not fully functional.

BR,
Mariusz