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Subject: RE: -var-update using formatted value
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> If I change the format to hexadecimal, 11 -> 0xb say, the display should
> change, so I would like GDB to report it through -var-update.

Can you elaborate?  When do you call var-update in this case?  Is it right =
after
the var-set-format?

> I don't use -var-evaluate-expression for current GDB.

So how to you display a value in a different format (say hex)? You must
be calling -var-update right away after the set-format.  That is why I thou=
ght=20
"-var-set-format --all-values var1 hex"=20
would return the value in hex (or whatever format specified).
I'd use this too, as I wouldn't need to call evaluate-expression after
var-set-format.

Then, you could say var-evaluate-expression is superfluous (I think).