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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
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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>.
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- 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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