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| <h2 class="chapter">7 Displays</h2> |
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| <p><em>Display Annotations have been removed. </em><span class="sc">gdb/mi</span><em> instead |
| provides Variable Objects.</em> |
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| <p><a name="index-display_002dbegin-36"></a><a name="index-display_002dnumber_002dend-37"></a><a name="index-display_002dformat-38"></a><a name="index-display_002dexpression-39"></a><a name="index-display_002dexpression_002dend-40"></a><a name="index-display_002dvalue-41"></a><a name="index-display_002dend-42"></a><a name="index-annotations-for-display-43"></a>When <span class="sc">gdb</span> is told to display something using the <code>display</code> command, |
| the results of the display are annotated: |
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| <pre class="smallexample"> ^Z^Zdisplay-begin |
| <var>number</var> |
| ^Z^Zdisplay-number-end |
| <var>number-separator</var> |
| ^Z^Zdisplay-format |
| <var>format</var> |
| ^Z^Zdisplay-expression |
| <var>expression</var> |
| ^Z^Zdisplay-expression-end |
| <var>expression-separator</var> |
| ^Z^Zdisplay-value |
| <var>value</var> |
| ^Z^Zdisplay-end |
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| <p class="noindent">where <var>number</var> is the number of the display, <var>number-separator</var> |
| is intended to separate the number from what follows for the user, |
| <var>format</var> includes information such as the size, format, or other |
| information about how the value is being displayed, <var>expression</var> is |
| the expression being displayed, <var>expression-separator</var> is intended |
| to separate the expression from the text that follows for the user, |
| and <var>value</var> is the actual value being displayed. |
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