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Subject: Re: test availability of variables in context from user command
From: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>
To: Christophe Demarey <Christophe.Demarey@inria.fr>
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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:59 +0100, Christophe Demarey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to check the availability of a variable (var1 for instance) in 
> the context from an user command but I don't find any way to do this.

Just interjecting a thought -- it would be nice if gdb had a
"which" command.  It could not only tell you whether an identifier
was in scope, but tell you WHICH scope it was in.  Could be useful,
for instance, to tell you that a local was over-shadowing a global.