From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17262 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2006 15:03:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 17235 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Dec 2006 15:03:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (HELO ug-out-1314.google.com) (66.249.92.168) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:03:10 +0000 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 39so1614374ugf for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:03:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.20.3 with SMTP id x3mr1333873ugi.1166194986767; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.mail.individual.net ( [85.179.199.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 5sm3615684ugc.2006.12.15.07.03.06; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:03:06 -0800 (PST) To: Nick Roberts Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb in emacs : dereference pointer References: <7884636.post@talk.nabble.com> <17794.2607.425914.688708@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <17794.2607.425914.688708@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:36:31 +1300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Hadron Quark 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: 2006-12/txt/msg00138.txt.bz2 Nick Roberts writes: > > I know this sounds ridiculous but I cant figure out how to get emacs to > > display VALUES or dereferenced values in the locals or any other pane of the > > multi-window GUD setup. > > It does sound a bit ridiculous because this is mailing for GDB not > Emacs There is a strong tie in : and its more gdb related than emacs related. I would have expected a lot of gdb users to run it from within emacs. Sorry if you consider it OT. > > > Yes, I can "display" so it is shown after every step but that is horrible - > > I want it in a fixed place in the locals pane. What obvious thing am I > > missing here? > > You can't currently do this as it's not straightforward to implement. You can > dereference them as watch expressions in the speedbar (maybe thats what you > mean by "display"). I try not to use the speedbar : I find it buggy and unresponsive. > > > I really dont want to use ddd. > > Insight does what you want. Thanks. I will take a look. --