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- From: gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com (Gordie Freedman)
- Subject: Re: problem with gdb
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.070028.8132@dolphin.com>
- Sender: gordie@dolphin.com
- Reply-To: gordie@yamanote.dolphin.com
- Organization: Dolphin Software
- References: <BxIo9p.142.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:00:28 GMT
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- In article <BxIo9p.142.2@cs.cmu.edu> hill@norman.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert
- Hill) writes:
- > I missed the original thread, but I have been having problems with gdb
- > printing the wrong values for variables under 3.0. I'll type something
- > like "print x". I am really sure x has the value of 1, but it says x is
- > 0. At first I thought I was wrong about the value of x, but adding a
- > printf said that x was 1. Very strange.
- >
- > Is there any reported bugs for gdb under 3.0?
- >
- > Rob
-
- If you are compiling with optimization (cc -O) sometimes variables get
- compiled out or reused. Debugging gets a little weird. I don't know if
- this is your problem but I have seen similar things when using gdb on an
- -O'd file. (It's really fun with C++ !)
- --
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