[xdebug-general] Re: arrays in local context limited to 31 elems?

Derick Rethans <derick[@]xdebug.org> wrote on 29/10/2007 18:48:04:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Dave Kelsey wrote:
>
> > > It would be great if the info was on the remote debugging doc page
> > > as well since this info is specific to remote debugging, someone
> > > focused on remote might miss the info if it is not on the remote
> > > page as well.
> >
> > Sorry Mike, I don't think that the remote debug section needs any
> > reference to xdebug.var_display_max_children. However I do think it
> > might be good to have more information about the xdebug specific
> > implementation of the DBGp facilities. For example the default
> > max_children, the supported encodings, which features are supported
> > etc.
>
> The defaults depend on the debugging engine implementation, 32 doesn't
> have to be the same number for other implementations, therefore it does
> not belong in the specs. Especially because of this, there is the
> feature_get command to retrieve the information.

Agreed, which is why if it was going to be any place it would be in the
xdebug
specific implementation information of DBGp.

>
> But perhaps, some of the Xdebug specific implementation bits should be
> documented - however, all those bits can be figured out with the
> feature_get DBGp command.

You can, but it might be nice to have some documentation on it, eg you
have to
try to change the encoding on xdebug to find out that feature change is
not
supported.

Cheers
Dave Kelsey

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