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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] gdb-gdb.py: Make the fields copy-paste friendly
References: <20100115192840.GB4324@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
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In-Reply-To: <20100115192840.GB4324@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan 	Kratochvil's message of "Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:28:40 +0100")
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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> (gdb) p *(struct type *) 0x1dfabf0

Jan> But such printing should be probably more integrated into the framework if
Jan> approved than doing it this way in each case.

Maybe a new option like "set print type" or "set print pointer-type"?
Then it could apply everywhere, not just to the gdb-specific
pretty-printers.

Jan> -        fields.append("main_type = %s" % self.val['main_type'])
Jan> +        fields.append("main_type = (%s) %s" % (self.val['main_type'].type, self.val['main_type']))

... and in conjunction, changing this to just return values rather than
doing the formatting by hand.

Tom