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Re: [RFA] Document fixed/floating variable objects and thread-id.
> From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:16:01 +0400
>
> > More to the point, I cannot say that I have a clear understanding of
> > the issue. In what other situations will fixed and floating varobjs
> > behave differently? Are we talking about any situation where
> > identically named variables have different binding to memory
> > addresses, depending on scope and context?
>
> Yes.
Okay, thanks for explaining this to me. Based on what you wrote, I
suggest to say ``the values of variables whose names appear in the
expressions are re-evaluated every time in the context of the current
frame.'' Adding a couple of examples might explain this even further.