From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:09:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 2002-07-12  Mo DeJong  <supermo@bayarea.net>
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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 5e844e616b6..86bec4a0632 100644
--- 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 a71b7026964..6145dcf81e6 100644
--- 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