[RFA/RFC] Restore old handling of multi-register variables

[Joel Brobecker]

> Well, your patch doesn't really make it worse, so I won't
> object if you want to put it in.  It's not perfect, but it's
> better than what we have now, which doesn't work even
> for fully available values.

Thanks!  But let me see what I can do. I might have a little bit
more time mid-to-late November. Worse case scenario, we can put
this workaround in the 7.4 branch...

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Joel