Re: Variable objects: references formatting

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > Well, if you say patches against the previous revision of a file cause 
 > problems, I'll try to send patches against most current version in future.

Thanks.

 ...
 > > No, I just didn't appreciate the difference between pointers and references
 > > in GDB.  The discrepancy I "found" was due to me mistyping.  However I do
 > > see a problem with gcc 4.1 and variable objects where GDB keeps telling me:
 > >
 > >    Child of parent whose type does not allow children
 > >
 > > when it didn't when my program was compiled with gcc 3.2.
 > 
 > Again, maybe you can provide specific case where this error is produced? If
 > it affect real-world cases we'd better fix it soon.

It happens when I debug Emacs but I can't provide a simple case yet.  
However, do you see the problem with references that I mentioned earlier
(that they don't seem to disappear from the changelist with -var-update)?
This seems to be the case for any variable object made from a reference.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob