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From: Jonah Graham <jonah@kichwacoders.com>
To: GDB Development <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: MI to access value of $ prefixed variable name
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 00:35:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPmGMvihqU-f3s2PL09cFFZFfYGA6GLOv3HDLM4fm+0QawOPGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I have a user of Eclipse CDT who is having problems displaying a C variable
called $j (dollar sign prefixed variable) -
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=573703

I understand this is because $ prefixed variables are treated specially by
GDB.

47-stack-list-locals --thread 1 --frame 0 1
47^done,locals=[{name="$f",value="0"}]

52-var-create --thread 1 --frame 0 - * $f
52^done,name="var3",numchild="0",value="void",type="void",has_more="0"

Note type "void" above, $f is an int in the C code, but is indeed void (as
expected) in GDB. -stack-list-locals shows the correct value, but I can't
use the returned name back to -var-create because of the naming conflict.

There wasn't anything I saw in the help (
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Variable-Objects.html)
on this topic.

Thanks for your help.
Jonah

             reply	other threads:[~2021-05-25  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-25  4:35 Jonah Graham [this message]
2021-05-25 14:03 ` Simon Marchi
2021-05-25 17:11   ` Jonah Graham
2021-06-01 18:57   ` Tom Tromey

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