[PATCH] -var-update

[Vladimir Prus]

Nick Roberts wrote:

>  > I do not quite understand why coerce_array is used; I suspect the
>  > contents of an array are checked via the children instead of the
>  > parent.  coerce_array happens to also call coerce_ref.
> 
> Maybe it's historical, as varobj_update used value_equal previously and
> this uses coerce_array.
> 
> Anyway here's a patch that actually seems to work.  I've taken code from
> c_val_print.  Maybe there should be more checks and I've not tested
> varobj_set_value (-var-assign) yet, but I thought I'd sound out the
> genaral approcah first.

I think that in any case, you should add a function and call it, instead of
adding three identical code fragments. BTW, why coerce_ref is not suitable
here?

- Volodya