First part of inspecting local variables

runtime/vm/debugger.h

Index: runtime/vm/debugger.h
===================================================================
--- runtime/vm/debugger.h	(revision 2587)
+++ runtime/vm/debugger.h	(working copy)
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 class Breakpoint;
 class Isolate;
 class ObjectPointerVisitor;
+class ActiveVariables;
 
 
 // Breakpoint represents a location in Dart source and the corresponding
@@ -61,9 +62,7 @@
   intptr_t LineNumber();
   const char* ToCString();
 
-  // Returns an array of String values containing variable names
-  // in this activation frame.
-  RawArray* Variables();
+  ActiveVariables* LocalVariables();
 
   // Returns the value of the given variable in the context of the
   // activation frame.
@@ -74,6 +73,7 @@
   RawFunction* function_;

[siva, 2011/12/20 19:11:26]

How is this object pointer traversed during GC?

[hausner, 2011/12/20 21:43:55]

Good point. Changed it into a handle.

   intptr_t token_index_;
   intptr_t line_number_;
+  ActiveVariables* locals_;
 
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ActivationFrame);
 };
@@ -99,6 +99,24 @@
 };
 
 
+class ActiveVariables : public ZoneAllocated {
+ public:
+  ActiveVariables(const Function& function, intptr_t token_pos);
+
+  intptr_t Length() const { return desc_indices_.length(); }
+
+  void VariableAt(intptr_t i,
+                  String* name,
+                  intptr_t* token_pos,
+                  intptr_t* end_pos,
+                  Instance* value) const;
+ private:
+  LocalVarDescriptors* descriptors_;
+  ZoneGrowableArray<intptr_t> desc_indices_;
+  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ActiveVariables);
+};
+
+
 typedef void BreakpointHandler(Breakpoint* bpt, StackTrace* stack);