Re: MI: type prefixes for values

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-17T19:12:14Z

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:07:17PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> > 2006-03-12 Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> >
> > * mi/mi-cmd-stack.c (list_args_or_locals): Use common_val_print
> > instead of print_variable_value so that type doesn't get printed
> > with value.
>
> This patch is much more important that value formatting, in fact. Without
> it, if there's local reference variable that's no initialized, we get this
> output from gdb:
>
> (gdb) -stack-list-locals --all-values
> Cannot access memory at address 0x1
> ^error,msg="Cannot access memory at address 0x1"
>
> Essentially, I can't see any local variables. This patch fixes this too,
> because, I believe, common_val_print does check for non-dereferencable
> values. Changelogs say common_val_print was specifically added for this
> purpose.

Did you try this? I don't think it will: common_val_print was added
for the optimized-out case, not for the memory-error case, which should
be handled somewhere else.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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