From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17356 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2006 06:59:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 17348 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Nov 2006 06:59:55 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:59:46 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-120-59.snap.net.nz [202.124.120.59]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696A13D823D; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:00:07 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id C0533BE43E; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:55:38 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17758.44648.909015.309830@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:59:00 -0000 To: Greg Watson Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI: frozen variable objects X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.90.14 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00196.txt.bz2 > > > Incidentally, we moved away from the '-var-update *' approach because > > > it causes gdb 6.5 to crash in certain situations under Linux. > > I hope you'll forgive me for saying that that's infuriating behavior. > > The CDT developers seem to do it too. I don't believe you've reported > > this bug; therefore it will never be fixed, and folklore will > > propogate that -var-update * is unusable. > Bug #'s 2188 and 2190. I hadn't seen these either. For future reference MI has it's own category in the database. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob