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To: William Trenker <wdtrenker@yahoo.ca>
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Subject: Re: How Do I see (Disabled) data?
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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:34:00 -0000
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William Trenker <wdtrenker@yahoo.ca> writes:

> I've been searching through the gdb docs, and on Google, trying to figure out how to view data where gdb says:
> "Attempt to dereference a generic pointer.
> Disabling display 29 to avoid infinite recursion."  
> 
> Hopefully there is some way to see this data and take my chances on an infinite recursion.

Can you show us the exact commands you're using, and the exact output
from GDB?