Re: MI: type prefixes for values

[Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>]

On Monday 20 February 2006 23:57, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:55:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> > > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:23:04 +0300
> > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> > >  gdb@sources.redhat.com
> > >
> > > To make an even more specific question, I propose to:
> > >
> > >    - Remove type prefix from output of -data-evaluate-expression and
> > >         -var-evaluat-expression
> > >
> > >    - Add 'type' field to the output of -data-evaluate-expression
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this OK with everyone?
> >
> > I think a better suggestion surfaced in this discussion: don't try to
> > parse the output of -data-evaluate-expression, and use -var-create
> > instead.  Is that good enough?  If not, why not?
>
> Yes; I think (and Jim's experience seems to confirm) that
> -var-evaluate-expression is sufficiently cheap that if you need
> more than a simple string output, you should use it.

But output of -var-evaluate-expression includes that "type prefix" too! 

- Volodya