Re: Cann't print local vars when nesting functions

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:25:39 -0500
> From: tj <999alfred@comcast.net>
> CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> I am on linux, 2.4.26 kernel
> gcc 3.2.3
> gdb 5.3
> Source file test.c:
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
> 
>   int i,j;
>   int inside(void){
>     int k,l;
> 
>     k = 1;
>     l = k;
>     return 0;
> 
>   }
> 
>   i = 0;
>   j = 1;
> }
> 
> test$ cc -g -O0 test.c
> $ gdb ./a.out
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> (gdb) b test.c:16
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048340: file test.c, line 16.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: test/a.out
> 
> Breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:16
> 16        j = 1;
> (gdb) p i
> No symbol "i" in current context.
> (gdb)

Well, all I can say that with GDB 6.1 and 6.3 I don't see this
problem.  Unless someone who knows more than I do about problems
specific to GNU/Linux, I'd suggest to upgrade to newer versions of GCC
and GDB, and see if the problem goes away.