From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8176 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2006 20:22:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 8165 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Feb 2006 20:22:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:22:28 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-152-98.inter.net.il [80.230.152.98]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DOW64867 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:22:24 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:28:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Vladimir Prus , gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20060217201537.GA30881@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:15:37 -0500) Subject: Re: MI: type prefixes for values Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <200602171658.23427.ghost@cs.msu.su> <200602171724.03824.ghost@cs.msu.su> <20060217190418.GA27304@nevyn.them.org> <20060217193556.GA28754@nevyn.them.org> <20060217195909.GA19387@brasko.net> <20060217201537.GA30881@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00217.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:15:37 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb@sources.redhat.com > > The real problem here is that Vladimir is trying to parse the result of > -data-evaluate-expression, which is defined as opaque. Maybe someone > should design a major interface change where values are returned as > varobjs instead of strings. Maybe, I don't know. If the results of -data-evaluate-expression are designed to be unparsable, then indeed Vladimir shouldn't try that; but then there should be some way of getting that information in an easily parsable way.