Re: Variable objects: references formatting

Nick Roberts
2006-05-04T07:20:00Z

> Well, if you say patches against the previous revision of a file cause
> problems, I'll try to send patches against most current version in future.

Thanks.

...
> > No, I just didn't appreciate the difference between pointers and references
> > in GDB. The discrepancy I "found" was due to me mistyping. However I do
> > see a problem with gcc 4.1 and variable objects where GDB keeps telling me:
> >
> > Child of parent whose type does not allow children
> >
> > when it didn't when my program was compiled with gcc 3.2.
>
> Again, maybe you can provide specific case where this error is produced? If
> it affect real-world cases we'd better fix it soon.

It happens when I debug Emacs but I can't provide a simple case yet.
However, do you see the problem with references that I mentioned earlier
(that they don't seem to disappear from the changelist with -var-update)?
This seems to be the case for any variable object made from a reference.

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