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Re: -var-update and address changes

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs dot msu dot su>
Cc: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>, Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 11:13:09 -0400
Subject: Re: -var-update and address changes
References: <e1iqcl$2k4$1@sea.gmane.org> <200605031002.21910.ghost@cs.msu.su> <20060504145046.GA32605@nevyn.them.org> <200605041911.48045.ghost@cs.msu.su>

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:11:46PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> This appears to work for a simple case of variable 'i' defined both in 'main' 
> and in 'foo' called from main.
> 
> For the case where I'm stepping into 'bar' that has no 'i', -var-update 
> correctly says that 'i' has gone out of scope. However, after -exec-finish, 
> -var-update does not say that 'i' is not back in scope -- which would be nice 
> if "@-varobjs" are to be used for watches.

I'm not terribly surprised by this.  While I was fiddling with it I got
the feeling that the in-and-out-of-scope code was not very robust.  I'm
not going to try to debug this any further now, though - do you want to?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- Re: -var-update and address changes
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: -var-update and address changes
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: -var-update and address changes
  - From: Vladimir Prus

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