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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:10:00 -0000
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
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Subject: Re: [MI] frozen variable objects (bug)
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:46:29AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Why would frontend want to query anything about variable object? Is there
> a real case where frontend can't keep this information itself? If so,
> should -var-show-attributes report expression, type, and so on?

Same reason a front end would want to freeze a variable object;
sometimes it's more convenient one way, sometimes another way.
If we're calling this an attribute, I think -var-show-attributes
should display it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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