2002-07-12 Mo DeJong <supermo@bayarea.net>

* gdbmi.texinfo (var-evaluate-expression): Note that
var-list-children must be invoked before child variable
values can be evaluated.

diff --git a/gdb/mi/ChangeLog b/gdb/mi/ChangeLog
index 5e844e616b64d1cb08f681873cab6d1aa7582769..86bec4a0632835d7046536bba14ce98ba5d4c6c4 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/mi/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/mi/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2002-09-27  Andrew Cagney  <ac131313@redhat.com>
+
+       From 2002-07-12 Mo DeJong <supermo@bayarea.net>
+       * gdbmi.texinfo (var-evaluate-expression): Note that
+       var-list-children must be invoked before child variable
+       values can be evaluated.
+
 2002-09-26  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@redhat.com>
 
         * mi-cmd-disas.c (dump_insns): Add text only output for CLI.

diff --git a/gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo b/gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo
index a71b7026964601bb88bac498e4780fea1ca533de..6145dcf81e638be1a5d9473e7b1ea0b81eab046a 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo
@@ -3786,6 +3786,9 @@ for the object:
  value=@var{value}
 @end example
 
+Note that one must invoke @code{-var-list-children} for a variable
+before the value of a child variable can be evaluated.
+
 @subheading The @code{-var-assign} Command
 @findex -var-assign