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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: "set foo"
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y6gbzm4e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100424212118.GW13204@adacore.com>

> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:21:18 -0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> I think that "main" is treated as an expression, and this expression
> simply returns the address of function main.  For instance, try the
> following:
> 
>     (gdb) print main
> 
> Since it's a "set" command, we then discard the result of the evaluation.

Thanks.

So using "set foo" to make sure some symbol used by `foo' is loaded by
GDB is a valid technique, is that right?


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-25 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-24 20:52 Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-24 21:21 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 13:40   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-04-25 14:43     ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-25 15:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-26 16:24         ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-26 17:45           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-26 17:51             ` Paul Koning
2010-04-26 19:46             ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-26 20:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-27  3:11                 ` Tom Tromey
2010-04-27 17:04                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-27 17:25                     ` Tom Tromey

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