Re: MI: frozen variable objects

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-17T15:33:25Z

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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