From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9683 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2006 19:55:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 9675 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Nov 2006 19:55:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:55:24 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GnKfJ-0004ip-Jq; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:55:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:55:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Rob Quill Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Variable values before initialisaton Message-ID: <20061123195521.GA18110@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Quill , gdb@sourceware.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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: 2006-11/txt/msg00163.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:32:39PM +0000, Rob Quill wrote: > How could I go about looking into a fix? I wouldn't really know where > to start, but it is quite annoying for what am trying to do. You have to emit proper debug info from the compiler. It's the only thing that knows. However, for things where initialization is complicated (like classes), there's basically no way to get it right. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery