Feature - Support of pointer type

[pylessard]

[MrSparkels2nd]

I would like to help with this, what would be your goal?
What I think needs to happen to support this is are 3 main things:

1. The address of the pointer variable should be stored in the varmap
2. The type of data the pointer in the variable points to needs to be know
3. The server needs to read the pointer first (get the actual address of where the data is located) before reading the variable

Looking into the elf_dwarf_var_extractor.py most of the information for points 1 and 2 are already there. point 3 is I think the most amount of work.

Let me know if you would like help with this!

[pylessard]

Hi, what's your use case?

[MrSparkels2nd]

My use case is a pointer to a class, so for instance:

myGPIO* uartTxGPIO;
myGPIO* uartRxGPIO;
myUart* uart;

void initialize_class(void) {
  uartTxGPIO = new myGPIO(8);
  uartRxGPIO = new myGPIO(9);
  uart = new myUart(UartTxGPIO, UartRxGPIO);
}

Where the class is never deleted (as part of a bsp for instance). The reason I do this is so that I can support multiple configurations within my bsp but I would like to inspect the class variables within these classes.

[pylessard]

We can discuss, I suspect you from being a bot. contact me somewhere else :)

[MrSparkels2nd]

I sent you a email :)