Why data-evaluate-expression for variables

[royalstream]

data-evaluate-expression is used to inspect the value of variables during debugging (as your documentation clearly says).

For some reason gdb still uses my pretty printers but lldb-mi ignores them.

This is not a bug report since I get the same behavior in the command line: data-evaluate-expression ignores my type summary variable formatters but if I use frame variable or even print they come out nice. Why is data-evaluate-expression being used across the board? Is this intentional? Am I missing something?

[WebFreak001]

data-evaluate-expression is actually the print equivalent in GDB/MI. Are you sure print and frame variable actually work in lldb? They don't for me, which would explain why variables don't work in LLDB

[royalstream]

Yes print and frame variable work for me, but I don't know if it's something specific to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/lldb-mi (I'm using a mac).