Re: Evaluating an expression in a given scope

Vladimir Prus
2005-09-07T13:50:05Z

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:39:52PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Does gdb provides a clean way to evaluate an expression in a given scope
>> (file:line)?
>
> No, not really. File:line doesn't match unambiguously to scope,
> either, so it's not clear what the interface should look like... I
> think I'd use $pc instead.

You mean that variable can some into scope in the middle of assembler code
for a source-language line? Say:

int i = j, j = 10;

? Well, true! Though it's really a corner case

- Volodya