From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21947 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2006 15:33:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 21937 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Nov 2006 15:33:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:33:17 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Gl5iM-0008PN-MT; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:33:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:33:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Greg Watson Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI: frozen variable objects Message-ID: <20061117153314.GA32128@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Watson , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200611161547.46997.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <37D0E16F-2E33-47F4-9121-FC9125174F20@computer.org> <20061117151519.GA31319@nevyn.them.org> <404E3808-2FB6-4487-B221-FBF9CF94A956@computer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <404E3808-2FB6-4487-B221-FBF9CF94A956@computer.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00173.txt.bz2 On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:26:01AM -0700, Greg Watson wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > > >>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. Ah, I figured those weren't associated. My mistake and apologies. A testcase was sent to me for 2188 off-list. I can't reproduce it, however. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery