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From: Jerome Guitton <guitton@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Nullified garbage-collected global variables
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Jerome Guitton (guitton@adacore.com):

> Well, that sounded unlikely; then I double-checked, and experimental
> results rejected my assumption. e.g. my example without --readnow:
> 
> (gdb) p my_global_symbol
> No symbol "my_global_symbol" in current context.
> 
> and with --readnow:
> 
> (gdb) p my_global_symbol 
> Cannot access memory at address 0x0
> 
> Thank you for catching that. I'll fix my patch.

...and I will add this case in a testcase if/when the patch is accepted.