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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] keep-variable command
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu0eb5bc5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437C68CF.3060805@st.com> (message from Andrew STUBBS on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:26:07 +0000)

> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:26:07 +0000
> From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> Currently _all_ convenience variables are deleted when the symbol-file 
> command is used. The file command also uses symbol-file.

I think this is a terrible misfeature that we need to fix ASAP,
regardless of what we do with variables which depend on the symbol
table.

> Please give your example of a convenience variable with no relation to 
> the symbol table.

Others gave such an example:

  (gdb) set $foo = 1


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 15:54 Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-16 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-17  1:07   ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-17  9:56     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-17 15:07       ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-17 12:42     ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-17 12:26   ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-11-17 19:33     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-11-17 19:36       ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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