Re: MI: frozen variable objects

Greg Watson
2006-11-17T15:41:16Z

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