From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8052 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2006 20:08:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 7979 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Dec 2006 20:08:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:08:32 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-124-203.snap.net.nz [202.124.124.203]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572CE3D9A19; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:09:52 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8C4D4BE3ED; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:04:00 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17794.65455.138318.318499@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:08:00 -0000 To: Hadron Quark Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb in emacs : dereference pointer In-Reply-To: References: <7884636.post@talk.nabble.com> <17794.2607.425914.688708@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.91.17 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-12/txt/msg00139.txt.bz2 > > It does sound a bit ridiculous because this is mailing for GDB not > > Emacs > > There is a strong tie in : and its more gdb related than emacs > related. I would have expected a lot of gdb users to run it from within > emacs. Sorry if you consider it OT. Its just that your question is about functionality in CVS Emacs. There may be many people on this list who don't even use Emacs. > > > Yes, I can "display" so it is shown after every step but that is > > > horrible - I want it in a fixed place in the locals pane. What obvious > > > thing am I missing here? > > > > You can't currently do this as it's not straightforward to implement. You > > can dereference them as watch expressions in the speedbar (maybe thats > > what you mean by "display"). > > I try not to use the speedbar : I find it buggy and unresponsive. You need at least GDB 6.0 for it to work, but it works much better with 6.4 or later. If you still have problems then please report them to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org. Thats the only way we can improve it. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob