Re: Variable objects laziness

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > > Also -var-update only reports a change when the address changes and not
 > > the value.  Variable objects were broken before but in a different way
 > > (-var-assign worked but -var-update always reported that the reference
 > > value had changed).
 > 
 > Just so we're all on the same page, could you post a compilable test
 > case?  I don't need a dejagnu-ified one, just some C++.

Any C++ program with references (I've never used them in earnest) would do e.g


1:  main()
2:  {
3:    int x = 4;
4:    int& rx = x;
5:    x = 7;
6:  }

1) Do -var-create * - rx before line 4.

2) -var-update --all-values after line 4 picks up the change of address.

3) -var-update --all-values after line 5 doesn't pick up the change of value.

4) -var-assign var1 generates an internal error.

 > > I think a further call to coerce_array is needed and the output to -var-update
 > > should look like:
 > > 
 > > 
 > > -var-update --all-values var1
 > > ^done,changelist=[{name="var1",value="4",in_scope="true",type_chan ged="false"}]
 > > 
 > > i.e the address shouldn't appear in the value field.
 > 
 > Is that what it did before?  I guess it's not surprising.

No, before it would give the address too:

^done,changelist=[{name="var1",value="@0xbff72ebc: 4",in_scope="true",type_chan ged="false"}]

like now, but all the time e.g if you issued -var-update twice without doing
anything in between.


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