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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'JS'" <fedevaps@yahoo.dk>
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Subject: RE: Print variable with gdb??
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:22:00 -0000
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----Original Message----
>From: Russell Shaw
>Sent: 30 March 2005 10:32

> JS wrote:
>> I have:
>> 
>> int p = 5;
>> 
>> when I debug my code I would like to get a print of p's value therefore
>> I start gdb and type: 
>> 
>> print p
>> 
>> but then I get an error that the variable does not exists!
>> 
>> Hope someone can help!
>> 
>> JS
> 
> Type "start" so it runs to main(). print p should work if
> p is in scope.


  Or perhaps p has been optimised away by the compiler?  Be sure and compile
with -O0 so that what you're debugging bears the simplest and most direct
relationship to the source code.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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