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From: "Andrew Burgess" <aburgess@broadcom.com>
To: "Eran Ifrah" <eran.ifrah@gmail.com>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: RE: GDB/MI - var-update/create BUG
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89AE14E37D740B4796DC14566DF6325ECB7F3CD215@SJEXCHCCR02.corp.ad.broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinUo3LMBBmDWPm_jp2md3Xzi=06NBf2qJ2S6NF2@mail.gmail.com>

> On 26 October 2010 23:02, Behalf Of Eran Ifrah wrote:
> 
> Here is the debug session for the above code:
> 
> ( starting from first line of main() )
> (gdb)
> -var-create - * mystr._M_dataplus._M_p
> ^done,name="var1",numchild="1",value="0x28ff28 \"h\\377(\"",type="char
> *",thread-id="1",has_more="0"

Using "*" ties the creation of the variable to the current frame. Changing to use "@" will create a floating variable that will use the current _active_ frame. This seems to produce the result you are looking for.

Thanks,
Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-27  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26 22:02 Eran Ifrah
2010-10-27  7:50 ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2010-10-27  8:09   ` Eran Ifrah
2010-10-27 17:28 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-10-27 17:18   ` Eran Ifrah
2010-10-27 17:31     ` Robert Dewar

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