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From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] varobj.c
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On Tuesday 27 February 2007 20:04, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:05:47PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > 
> > Following Denis' patch, this patch makes GDB throw a user error if a non
> > root variable is used for -var-update.  Currently GDB does:
> > 
> > (gdb)
> > -var-update var1.1
> > ^done,changelist=[{name="var1.1",in_scope="false"}]
> > (gdb)
> > 
> > even though the expression that var1.1 represents may be inscope and have
> > changed value.
> 
> Vladimir, didn't you have some in-progress patch that actually wanted
> to update root varobjs?  Anyway, if so, we can change it back later.

You mean, update *non-root* varobjs? Yes, frozen varobjs patches makes
that possible. I believe the last version of said patch was posted in:

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gdb.patches/31838

and nobody has reviewed it yet.


- Volodya