From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11952 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2008 17:48:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 11934 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Apr 2008 17:48:52 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il (HELO mtaout6.012.net.il) (84.95.2.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:48:23 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.217]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0JZY008KD22RQJE0@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:01:40 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:45:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA] Document fixed/floating variable objects and thread-id. In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Vladimir Prus Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <200804041320.00361.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200804092147.37085.ghost@cs.msu.su> <200804100105.31748.ghost@cs.msu.su> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00605.txt.bz2 > From: Vladimir Prus > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:16:01 +0400 > > > More to the point, I cannot say that I have a clear understanding of > > the issue. In what other situations will fixed and floating varobjs > > behave differently? Are we talking about any situation where > > identically named variables have different binding to memory > > addresses, depending on scope and context? > > Yes. Okay, thanks for explaining this to me. Based on what you wrote, I suggest to say ``the values of variables whose names appear in the expressions are re-evaluated every time in the context of the current frame.'' Adding a couple of examples might explain this even further.