From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27620 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2006 15:41:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 27611 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Nov 2006 15:41:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:41:09 +0000 Received: from [68.166.114.35] (helo=[IPv6:::1]) by elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Gl5py-0005gb-Qk; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:41:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20061117153314.GA32128@nevyn.them.org> 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> <20061117153314.GA32128@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Greg Watson Subject: Re: MI: frozen variable objects Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:41:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-ELNK-Trace: b18dadd04c208faa1aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79671b5a756e3ee370d6e3d89a4de3a640350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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/msg00175.txt.bz2 On Nov 17, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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. We'll try and get some better information on reproducing the problem. Greg