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RE: -var-update using formatted value
> 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 thought
"-var-set-format --all-values var1 hex"
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).