RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Fuqun.Zhou]

I directly installed gdb using cygwin's setup remotely. I am afraid that I
do not have the source files for gdb.

Fuqun

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Seitz [mailto:keiths@redhat.com]
Sent: May 30, 2003 12:12 PM
To: Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca
Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables


On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:02, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> It only displayed: Error:
> No error message.
> 

Ok, that doesn't suprise me. Do you have the build sources around? Do
you have either of the following files?

src/gdb/varobj.c
src/gdb/gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-variable.c

Keith

RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:14, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> I directly installed gdb using cygwin's setup remotely. I am afraid that I
> do not have the source files for gdb.

Ah.. I think I'm getting you confused with another poster. Sorry about
that!

Okay, I am pretty confident that the problem is varobj (which is a gdb
"variable object" interface for UIs). Since I originally wrote that code
for Insight (and it was later stolen for gdb), I can pretty safely say
that it doesn't handle Fortran -- I've never modified the code to deal
with that!

Anyway, I'll bet the locals and watch windows don't work, either, right?

Keith

RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:29, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> all variables in local windows are lower case.
> Watch window does not take upper case variables
> (must type variable names in lower case).

It's almost certainly a bug in the varobj code (which belongs to gdb).
Like I said: it was never tweaked to work with Fortran.

Submit a bug against gdb/varobj (go to gdb homepage on sources).

Keith

RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:02, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> It only displayed: Error:
> No error message.
> 

Ok, that doesn't suprise me. Do you have the build sources around? Do
you have either of the following files?

src/gdb/varobj.c
src/gdb/gdbtk/generic/gdbtk-variable.c

Keith

RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Fuqun.Zhou]

It only displayed: Error:
No error message.

Fuqun

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Seitz [mailto:keiths@redhat.com]
Sent: May 30, 2003 11:31 AM
To: Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca
Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables


On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:48, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> > I used upper case for all variables in my Fortran program, such AAA and
> > BBB.

I think this is the problem... I don't believe that Insight fully
supports Fortran. [Okay, actually, it would be a GDB problem.]

Try this in a console window:

(gdb) tk gdb_variable create -expr AAA

where "AAA" is the name of one of your variables. Please send the
resultant output/error message(s).

Keith

RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 08:32, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> It said Undefined command: "tk".
> 

In Insight's console window?

Keith

RE: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Fuqun.Zhou]

Hi Keith,

It said Undefined command: "tk".

Fuqun

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Seitz [mailto:keiths@redhat.com]
Sent: May 30, 2003 11:31 AM
To: Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca
Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables


On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:48, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> > I used upper case for all variables in my Fortran program, such AAA and
> > BBB.

I think this is the problem... I don't believe that Insight fully
supports Fortran. [Okay, actually, it would be a GDB problem.]

Try this in a console window:

(gdb) tk gdb_variable create -expr AAA

where "AAA" is the name of one of your variables. Please send the
resultant output/error message(s).

Keith

Re: insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:48, Fuqun.Zhou@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:
> > I used upper case for all variables in my Fortran program, such AAA and
> > BBB.

I think this is the problem... I don't believe that Insight fully
supports Fortran. [Okay, actually, it would be a GDB problem.]

Try this in a console window:

(gdb) tk gdb_variable create -expr AAA

where "AAA" is the name of one of your variables. Please send the
resultant output/error message(s).

Keith

insight -- variable balloons for upper case variables

[Fuqun.Zhou]

> Hi,
> 
> First, I would like to say that INSIGHT is a very useful tool for visual
> debugging.
> Thank you very much for your good work!
> 
> I used upper case for all variables in my Fortran program, such AAA and
> BBB.
> During debugging, I realized that variable balloons do not show up for all
> those 
> upper case variables. Is there a setting or option in INSIGHT to allow
> variable 
> balloons display (to show the values) of upper case variables.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fuqun Zhou
>