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Re: Cann't print local vars when nesting functions


Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:25:39 -0500
From: tj <999alfred@comcast.net>
CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com

I am on linux, 2.4.26 kernel
gcc 3.2.3
gdb 5.3
Source file test.c:
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){

 int i,j;
 int inside(void){
   int k,l;

   k = 1;
   l = k;
   return 0;

}

 i = 0;
 j = 1;
}

test$ cc -g -O0 test.c
$ gdb ./a.out
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This GDB was configured as "i386-slackware-linux"...
(gdb) b test.c:16
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048340: file test.c, line 16.
(gdb) run
Starting program: test/a.out


Breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:16
16 j = 1;
(gdb) p i
No symbol "i" in current context.
(gdb)



Well, all I can say that with GDB 6.1 and 6.3 I don't see this problem. Unless someone who knows more than I do about problems specific to GNU/Linux, I'd suggest to upgrade to newer versions of GCC and GDB, and see if the problem goes away.



Your right. My system was built from Slackware 9.1. I ssh'ed to a buddy's machine that was built using Slackware 10.0. It has gcc v3.3.4 and gdb 6.1.1. I now display the values and no "not in present context messages".
Oh well, wonder why it took so long for that to get fixed/included?


Well, guess I need to update my system, heavy sigh.

Thank you for getting me pointed in the right direction.

tj



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