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Re: MI: type prefixes for values
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:31:20PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:22:32PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:15:37 -0500
> > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > > Cc: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
> > >
> > > The real problem here is that Vladimir is trying to parse the result of
> > > -data-evaluate-expression, which is defined as opaque. Maybe someone
> > > should design a major interface change where values are returned as
> > > varobjs instead of strings.
> >
> > Maybe, I don't know. If the results of -data-evaluate-expression are
> > designed to be unparsable, then indeed Vladimir shouldn't try that;
> > but then there should be some way of getting that information in an
> > easily parsable way.
>
> What a great idea! Conveniently someone else already thought of it :-)
Oh, just in case it wasn't clear: this obsoletes may suggestion above;
I had not realized you could do this with the existing -var-create
until I went to look.
Maybe a note about this under -data-evaluate-expression is in order.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery