From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9626 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2006 20:14:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 9616 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Dec 2006 20:14:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:14:04 +0000 Received: (qmail 6997 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 20:14:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 15 Dec 2006 20:14:02 -0000 To: Nick Roberts Cc: Hadron , 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> From: Jim Blandy Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:14:00 -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/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00140.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 Whoa. I think questions like this deserve a gentler response. This isn't a gdb-developers or gdb-experts list; it's the GDB list. If one is not familiar with the whole architecture, then when running GDB under Emacs it can be unclear which component you need to talk to to get something done. (Having just tried Eclipse for the first time last night, this point is very fresh in my mind.)