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  64. <h4 class="subsection">15.1.2 Setting the Working Language</h4>
  65. <p>If you allow <small>GDB</small> to set the language automatically,
  66. expressions are interpreted the same way in your debugging session and
  67. your program.
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  70. <p>If you wish, you may set the language manually. To do this, issue the
  71. command &lsquo;<samp>set language <var>lang</var></samp>&rsquo;, where <var>lang</var> is the name of
  72. a language, such as
  73. <code>c</code> or <code>modula-2</code>.
  74. For a list of the supported languages, type &lsquo;<samp>set language</samp>&rsquo;.
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  76. <p>Setting the language manually prevents <small>GDB</small> from updating the working
  77. language automatically. This can lead to confusion if you try
  78. to debug a program when the working language is not the same as the
  79. source language, when an expression is acceptable to both
  80. languages&mdash;but means different things. For instance, if the current
  81. source file were written in C, and <small>GDB</small> was parsing Modula-2, a
  82. command such as:
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  85. <pre class="smallexample">print a = b + c
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  88. <code>b</code> and <code>c</code> and place the result in <code>a</code>. The result
  89. printed would be the value of <code>a</code>. In Modula-2, this means to compare
  90. <code>a</code> to the result of <code>b+c</code>, yielding a <code>BOOLEAN</code> value.
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