From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13360 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2005 13:57:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13349 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2005 13:57:41 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:57:41 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ED0Qm-0001J0-9f; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:57:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:57:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Vladimir Prus Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Evaluating an expression in a given scope Message-ID: <20050907135740.GA4842@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Vladimir Prus , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:39:52PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote: > > Hello! > > Does gdb provides a clean way to evaluate an expression in a given scope > (file:line)? BTW: unlike the other post, this is something I believe GDB should do. In fact, GDB already needs to do it, for much the same reasons - restoring breakpoints as shared libraries are loaded and unloaded. We just don't have an interface for it yet. $pc isn't a great way to identify scopes either. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC