RFC: MI - Detecting change of string contents with variable objects

[Nick Roberts]

 > Why do you need the value_get_print_value function? I think that the right
 > semantic of -var-update is that it returns all such variable objects for
 > which the -var-evaluate-expression will return different value before and
 > after -var-update. -var-evaluate-expression is the only way to get a value
 > of varobj, so we should be using that, not some similar but different
 > function.
 > 
 > In order words, why can't you just call varobj_get_value instead of
 > introducing and calling a new function? 

Because -var-evaluate-expression uses varobj_get_value so they will always
return the same value?

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob