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On 10/27/2010 1:17 PM, Eran Ifrah wrote:

>> normally you want to track that _variable_, not that _name_.
>> Anywhere you are.

I agree with that viewpoint
>>
> Not really, thats depends on what you are trying to achieve - since
> variable object were designed to ease the task of the IDE, then I
> say this is incorrect (at least to me). In my case, I actually never
> want to track 'variable object' I want to track 'expressions' in the
> code.

OK, but this seems quite bizarre to me, and I would not want GDB
to do this by default