Re: [RFC]: remove inconsistency in printcmd.c: print_scalar_formatted

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:41:44PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:57:04PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >>>Ping.  Could we continue discussing this topic and come to some form of 
> >>>resolution?  The new additional ia64 test failures are annoying.
> >
> >>
> >>I thought there was basic agreement with your change (It sux less then 
> >>the current behavior :-).  Yes, change it.  That way, behavior such as:
> >>	(gdb) print/x 1.0
> >>will at least be more consistent.
> >
> >
> >Yeah, I agree, and re-reading Kevin's message I don't think he objects.
> >
> >How do you all feel about a more sweeping change instead:
> >(gdb) set $doublevar = 2.0
> >(gdb) print doublevar
> >$1 = 2.0
> >(gdb) print (int) doublevar
> >$1 = 2
> >(gdb) print/x (int) doublevar
> >$1 = 2
> >(gdb) print/x doublevar
> >$1 = 0xc000000000000000
> >(gdb) print/i doublevar
> >???? [no preference really]
> 
> No.  That would be wrong.  print/<format> prints the value (not the 
> implementation) using the specified format.  Being able to examine the 
> underlying implementation in various formats is more of an "examine" 
> command.

Andrew, please explain to us all how you can respond to "I think this
would be a better, different-than-the-current behavior" with "No, that
would be wrong".

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer