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 - <h4 class="subsection">15.1.2 Setting the Working Language</h4>
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 - <p>If you allow <small>GDB</small> to set the language automatically,
 - expressions are interpreted the same way in your debugging session and
 - your program.
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 - <p>If you wish, you may set the language manually.  To do this, issue the
 - command ‘<samp>set language <var>lang</var></samp>’, where <var>lang</var> is the name of
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 - <code>c</code> or <code>modula-2</code>.
 - For a list of the supported languages, type ‘<samp>set language</samp>’.
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 - to debug a program when the working language is not the same as the
 - source language, when an expression is acceptable to both
 - languages—but means different things.  For instance, if the current
 - source file were written in C, and <small>GDB</small> was parsing Modula-2, a
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 - printed would be the value of <code>a</code>.  In Modula-2, this means to compare
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