From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28467 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2007 03:11:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 28456 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jul 2007 03:11:55 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:11:53 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (24.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.24]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 215FA3D8BCA; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:11:50 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DDD228FBF6; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:11:46 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18059.4081.679819.107248@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:11:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [MI] lvalues and variable_editable In-Reply-To: <18059.3627.269075.427280@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <18048.64048.398970.186217@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070703161533.GF2868@caradoc.them.org> <18059.3627.269075.427280@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.10 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 I mean: > > I'm still a bit confused but I think this is because I read "lvalue" > > and think of the C language meaning. An lvalue is something which can > > occur on the left hand side of an assignment. So it can happen for > > children too, for instance. > > AFAIK lvalue isn't a language specific context. Here's how to specify an ^^^^^^^ ^^ concept > lvalue for a root variable: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ a root variable that's _not_ an lvalue: > > -var-create - * "i1 + i2" > > Can you give an example of how you would specify an lvalue for children? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ children that _aren't_ lvalues? -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob