Re: Python/MI/STL visualization

André Pönitz wrote:

 >> Well, segfaul is not scary. What is scary is if
due to uninitialized data,
>> the amount of the children the visualizer wants to
fetch end up been 10000 
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> My "solution" here is to wildly poke around
in the structure hoping to
> trigger a segfault early and interpret such segfault as
"uninitialized object".
> 
> So if there's a std::vector<> with size()
reporting a non-0 value, try
> to access the first and last element and one from the
middle and
> hope that at least one of these addresses are
"bad" 
> 
> In practice, this works rather nicely. The bigger the
reported size()
> gets the more potential harm would actually listing the
children do,
> but the more likely it also is to recognize the object
as uninitialized.

Oh, I think it's a nice trick 

- Volodya