Re: gdb/256: cannot print values of some integer class members

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR gdb/256; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: mprisco@ubspw.com
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/256: cannot print values of some integer class members
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:53:10 -0500

 Patches for this have been posted, and should be committed soon.
 
 On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:09:12PM -0000, mprisco@ubspw.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         256
 > >Category:       gdb
 > >Synopsis:       cannot print values of some integer class members
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       high
 > >Responsible:    unassigned
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 13 06:18:00 PST 2001
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Marc Prisco
 > >Release:        gdb-5.1
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > gdb5.1 build on ultra sparc 5 running solaris 8
 > >Description:
 > Occasionally, whenever I try to print the value of an integer
 > I receive the following:
 > 
 > (gdb) p widestRow
 > Value can't be converted to integer.
 > 
 > where widestRow in a rpivate integer member of report.
 > Unfortunately, whenever I try to isolate problem into
 > a smaller test program, this behavior ceases.
 > 
 > When I look at gdb in the debugger, I see the message is
 > generated in values.c:659.  Interestingly
 > there code is TYPE_CODE_STRUCT.  Although I don't see the
 > problem this doesn't seem quite right.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 > 
 
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