Hi all. While playing around with gdb's "mi" interface (which looks rather nice for scripting btw...) I came across a few places where I think the interface might be made even more convienient without much effort. One example: As far as I can see currently the only way to obtain the type of an expression is to use -var-create & -var-delete. It would be more convienient for me if I could get that information with a single command without creating a variable which will be thrown away immediatedly afterwards. A possibility to do so would be to "enhance" "-data-evaluate-expression" to return not only the value, but also the type information which is is available after the evaluation process anyway. I came up with a tiny patch that "seem to work for me". But as this is the first time I look gdb source I am unsure whether this is done properly or if some kind of cleanup is needed, and, of course, whether there is a chance to get such patches included in gdb proper at some point of time. Andre'