GDB 6.5 branch on Sun May 14th

[Nick Roberts]

[Sorry I seem to have lost the original message.  It's archived
at http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2006-05/msg00197.html]

> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:22:15AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > OK, I had thoght you considered the change to be reasonable.  Lets leave it
> > till after the release then, when we can discuss how to print values more
> > fully.  As Eli points out, its pretty pointless trying to predict Emacs's
> > release anyway.

> I'll get to it before the release if I can; it's just that GDB builds
> up such a backlog of unreviewed patches that it takes a full day or
> more every time I get started.

Emacs *might* be up for pretest shortly.  Can you please review/approve this
change shortly so that I can make the associated changes to Emacs?  A statement
that you will allow such a change before the next release (6.6?) of GDB would
be sufficient.

I submitted something for the testsuite earlier:
Re: [PATCH]: MI -var-set-format (Tue, 16 May 2006 14:34:42 +1200)
[http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-05/msg00348.html]


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



2006-05-02  Nick Roberts  <nickrob@snap.net.nz>

	* mi/mi-cmd-var.c (mi_cmd_var_set_format): Add value field to output.



*** mi-cmd-var.c	31 Mar 2006 12:46:48 +1200	1.23
--- mi-cmd-var.c	02 May 2006 18:16:39 +1200	
***************
*** 211,216 ****
--- 211,219 ----
  
    /* Report the new current format */
    ui_out_field_string (uiout, "format", varobj_format_string[(int) format]);
+ 
+   /* Report the value in the new format */
+   ui_out_field_string (uiout, "value", varobj_get_value (var));
    return MI_CMD_DONE;
  }