[M3devel] Pretty-printing REFANYs?

[Darko]

As far as I know, yes, they're not in the binary. I'd love to be  
proven wrong though, or fix it so they did. I have a module that reads  
the .M3WEB file and maps it to types and a module that will read and  
write any field within a type safely using a numeric index. Neither is  
perfect. You can integrate the two to get what you want but I seem to  
remember having some problems mapping type ids (UIDs?) to typecodes at  
runtime.


On 28/09/2008, at 7:49 AM, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> Right, I am aware of those interfaces.. just wondering what was
> out there.  Do I really need to look at .M3WEB?  I thought
> that m3gdb could figure out things without anything outside
> of the binary...
>
> I'm looking for essentially what m3gdb offers, say prints
> at minimum the name of the type (this I recall is trivial with
> some of the RT* interfaces) but hopefully also with field names
> and values, but doesn't expand references recursively.. something
> like that?
>
>    Mika
>
> Darko writes:
>> You can use RTTipe to read the fields and values within a type. If  
>> you
>> also want the type and field names you can interpret the .M3WEB file.
>> I have a couple of modules that do something like that but they are
>> not what you would call finished. What level of detail are you after?
>>
>>
>> On 28/09/2008, at 6:45 AM, Mika Nystrom wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Modula-3 people,
>>>
>>> I am working on a writing an interpreter that I'd like to embed in
>>> various Modula-3 programs.  It so happens that this interpreter
>>> might from time to time be manipulating arbitrary M3 REFs, and just
>>> from the point of view of providing information to a human user,
>>> it might be nice to be able to pretty-print these.  Does anyone
>>> have any code that accomplishes this, at least partly?  I'm thinking
>>> that since m3gdb can do it, the information must all be in the
>>> binary---somehow.  (Even enumeration names, right?)  And since the
>>> pickler can pickle things... hmm.
>>>
>>> I would greatly appreciate any guidance that's out there...
>>>
>>>   Best regards,
>>>      Mika Nystrom