Re: Locals window empty with version 5.2.1 for MIPS

["Martin M. Hunt" <hunt at redhat dot com>]

On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:42 pm, Fred Young wrote:
> I'm running Insight version 5.2.1 under Cygwin targeted for MIPS.
>
> When I open the Locals window, nothing is displayed even though the gdb
> command "info locals" command does display the locals.
>
> I've compared the behavior with version 5.1 and discovered that the
> difference is in the function gdb_block_vars in the file
> gdb/gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-stack.c
>
> With version 5.1, the function parse_and_eval_address is used to set the
> variables "start" and "end"; parse_and_eval_address returns values like
> 0xffffffff81000d2c.
>
> With version 5.2.1 the function string_to_core_addr is used to set the
> variables "start" and "end"; string_to_core_addr returns values like
> 0x0000000081000d2c, so that the line
>       if (BLOCK_START (block) == start && BLOCK_END (block) == end)
> always fails.
>
> Fred Young
> NNG Canada Inc.
> 519 880-8089

Thanks for posting this.  I had a fix that I needed to get approved.  It is 
checked into sources now.  The patch is posted at 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-10/msg00230.html

-- 
Martin Hunt
GDB Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.