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From: Greg Watson <g.watson@computer.org>
Subject: Re: MI: frozen variable objects
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:26:00 -0000
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
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On Nov 17, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
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>
>> 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.

Greg