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Re: The 'x' command: size problem
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: ghost at cs dot msu dot su
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:16:56 +0300
- Subject: Re: The 'x' command: size problem
- References: <dfkaub$n1c$1@sea.gmane.org> <20050906152448.GA2444@nevyn.them.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:24:48 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:00:28PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > works. In fact, the x_command function in printcmd.c expects the the size
> > argument be always given as literal.
> >
> > This limitation makes it somewhat harder to implement "show this
> > variable/expression in binary" command in a GUI. Are there any easy
> > workarounds?
>
> Not as far as I know.
Is that a bug, and if so, should we fix it ASAP?