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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] PR python/11407
References: <4C23426F.4020502@redhat.com> <m3aaqk8foj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>	<4C23D5CB.5040702@redhat.com> <m3y6e33r7d.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>	<4C251D93.6020909@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:25:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4C251D93.6020909@redhat.com> (Phil Muldoon's message of "Fri, 25	Jun 2010 22:20:19 +0100")
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>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> writes:

Tom> Why not catch the exception and print the text of it as the variable's
Tom> value?  Something like  <error reading variable: %s>
Tom> I think this will work ok with existing front ends.

Phil> Here is a patch that does that.  

Phil> What do you think?

This patch is ok with a suitable ChangeLog entry.
Thanks, and I'm sorry about the delay on this.  I probably should have
tried harder to get it into 7.2.

Tom