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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Cc: Paul Koning <Paul_Koning@dell.com>,         "Elmenthaler\, Jens" <jens.elmenthaler@verigy.com>, gdb@sourceware.org,         archer@sourceware.org, dje@google.com
Subject: Re: [python] Pretty-printers and addressprint
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In-Reply-To: <8ac60eac0911100744t5335a44fn7175e2d5c512e450@mail.gmail.com> 	(Paul Pluzhnikov's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:44:59 -0800")
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> writes:

Paul> AFAICT, in GDB repr(value) is a no-op, and the end result of returning
Paul> repr(value) from the pretty-printer is exactly the same as that of
Paul> returning the value itself:

That is because repr(value) ends up in valpy_str, which calls
common_val_print.

What you want instead is repr(value.string()), at least if you want to
try this route.

Tom