debugger: assume that not-known-to-be-simple types have children

This might lead to false positives in corner cases like empty structures
but speed up the display of arrays and lists of user-defined types a lot.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/plugins/debugger/watchutils.cpp b/src/plugins/debugger/watchutils.cpp
index 4ca9b22b980..cd6c7e21b32 100644
--- a/src/plugins/debugger/watchutils.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/debugger/watchutils.cpp
@@ -337,6 +337,17 @@ bool isIntOrFloatType(const QString &type)
     return isIntType(type) || types.contains(type);
 }
 
+GuessChildrenResult guessChildren(const QString &type)
+{
+    if (isIntOrFloatType(type))
+        return HasNoChildren;
+    if (isPointerType(type))
+        return HasChildren;
+    if (type.endsWith(QLatin1String("QString")))
+        return HasNoChildren;
+    return HasPossiblyChildren;
+}
+
 QString sizeofTypeExpression(const QString &type)
 {
     if (type.endsWith(QLatin1Char('*')))