String handling in GDB command language variables

[Andrew Cagney]

> The command language always mimics the current source language being
> debugged, defaulting to C; C doesn't have a string type.  That's the
> historical justification anyway.
> 
> If there's a consensus that a string type would be useful, it could
> probably be done.  I think it might be a good idea; we could use
> strings for arguments to gdb commands, etc.  However I'm not sure of
> the syntax.

DanielJ's comment, GDB's current behavior is to always a malloc(), store 
the value in the target, and then create a `char *' `struct value'.

Is there anything in the `rule book' that says that GDB can be lazy 
(when given "string" create a `char[]' `struct value' and then only 
allocate space / create the pointer when the value is needed by the 
target)?  Is this trivial?  Is this needed?

"no"? "no"? "yes"?

Andrew