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Re: MI: type prefixes for values
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:15:37 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>, 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.