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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Marc Khouzam" <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: MI -var-set-format
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uodbamdjc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA04290E62@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se> 	(marc.khouzam@ericsson.com)

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:35:19 -0500
> From: "Marc Khouzam" <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
> 
> Index: doc/gdb.texinfo
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
> retrieving revision 1.459
> diff -u -r1.459 gdb.texinfo
> --- doc/gdb.texinfo     23 Jan 2008 11:26:29 -0000      1.459
> +++ doc/gdb.texinfo     24 Jan 2008 21:32:51 -0000
> @@ -20058,6 +20058,9 @@
>  recommended to use the @samp{--all-values} option, to reduce the
>  number of MI commands needed on each program stop.
>  
> +To know if a variable object or any of its children has changed value in any 
> +format instead of only the current one, the variable object and all its children
> +should be in the natural format before issuing the @code{-var-update} command.  

Sorry, I don't understand what this sentence is trying to say.  What
does it mean ``the object should be in the natural format before
issuing the command''?  How can an object ``be'' in some format?  And
how would its format help me know that it changed its value?

What am I missing here?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-25  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24 21:49 Marc Khouzam
2008-01-25 10:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-01-25 15:46   ` Marc Khouzam
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-02  6:19 Nick Roberts
2006-05-05 18:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-05 23:30   ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-15 17:07     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-16  3:46       ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-22 20:13         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-23  3:25           ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-23  3:48             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-23  6:24               ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-23 13:17                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-23 21:17                   ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-23 21:24                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-23 22:30                       ` Nick Roberts

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