RE: [Patch] Fix for -var-update to use natural format to compare

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

 > This is assuming the frontend only displays a single value.
 > In DSF, we (sometimes) display all values at once.  Can be nice for the user.
 > 
 > > why do you want to keep track of the value in
 > > all formats?  And if you're actually displaying them all
 > > simultaneously to the user, why shouldn't they be independent varobjs?
 > 
 > Independent varObjects would work.  However every time the program stops
 > the frontend will need to issue a var-update on five objects instead of one,
 > and what is worse is that GDB will need to read the memory from the target
 > five times instead of once.  This is less efficient than the frontend
 > forcing GDB to use natural format (see below.)

You say it "Can be nice for the user." but you haven't really answered the
first question:

   why do you want to keep track of the value in all formats?

Why, for example, would a user want to see the value of a double as a
decimal?  It just seems to be a misleading thing to do.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob