From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6935 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2010 21:23:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 6925 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2010 21:23:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_GD,TW_SV,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:23:50 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBKLNcjq015924 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:23:38 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oBKLNcs9019721; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:23:38 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBKLNb0P003138; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:23:37 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 08465378282; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:23:36 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: Jonas Maebe Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Symbolic constants inside classes References: <1DD38938-E7BD-491F-905C-FCA963E5E941@elis.ugent.be> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:23:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1DD38938-E7BD-491F-905C-FCA963E5E941@elis.ugent.be> (Jonas Maebe's message of "Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:17:28 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2010-12/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jonas" == Jonas Maebe writes: Jonas> Consider this C++ program: [...] Jonas> g++ -gdwarf-2 generates a definition for both MAGIC_NUM constants Jonas> both in the respective class scopes, and also in the global Jonas> namespace: What version of g++? Jonas> In gdb (7.0), Jonas> 1) p MAGIC_NUM prints 42 Jonas> 2) "p Xyz::MAGIC_NUM" and "p Xyz2::MAGIC_NUM" print "static field MAGIC_NUM has been optimized out" Jonas> 3) "p C.MAGIC_NUM" and "p C2.MAGIC_NUM" print "field MAGIC_NUM is nonexistent or has been optimised out" I tried this example with svn trunk gcc and CVS head gdb, and it worked. I didn't try to find out whether the fix was in gcc or gdb. Tom