From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@act-europe.fr>, Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Pb when calling a nested function in the inferior
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <1010731081941.ZM6307@ocotillo.lan>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00747.html

On Jul 31,  9:24am, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> > BTW, GDB isn't particularly graceful in its handling of the ``get_value.0''
> > symbol.  E.g, observe what happens when I do ``x/i get_value.0'':
> > 
> >     (gdb) x/i get_value.0
> >     No symbol "get_value" in current context.
> 
> That's curious. With my version of gdb, I don't get the same result
> (using GNU gdb 2001-07-30-cvs (MI_OUT)):
>     (gdb) x/10i get_value.0
>     A parse error in expression, near `'.
>     (gdb) x/4i get_value
>     0x8048468 <get_value>:  push   %ebp
>     0x8048469 <get_value+1>:        mov    %esp,%ebp
>     0x804846b <get_value+3>:        sub    $0x4,%esp
>     0x804846e <get_value+6>:        mov    %ecx,0xfffffffc(%ebp)

Which vesion of gcc are you using?  (I'm using 2.96 from Red Hat 7.0.)

Kevin