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From:  Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
Subject:  Re: Formatting of function pointer value
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:10:00 -0000
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:12:47PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> > There's limited facility for computing values with machine-readable
>> > results, probably because there has been limited need for it to date.
>> 
>> So,
>> 1. It's not possible to avoid those {} in the current code, using MI or
>> CLI. 2. It's not likely that this will change
>> Right?
> 
> That's the opposite of what I said.  If there's a need for printing the
> values in some "raw" form, then a new MI command can be added to do so.

But why a new command? MI is for frontends and they don't need any
decoration of the value. Why not eliminate {} in MI mode?

- Volodya