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Re: gdb 5
- To: alk at pobox dot com
- Subject: Re: gdb 5
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 18 Apr 2001 09:40:02 -0600
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <15068.35489.413757.888718@spanky.love.edu>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> writes:
Tony> I'm wondering if these behaviours are indicative of a bug is
Tony> .stabs, or if there's something tricky going on:
Tony> When I 'main print symbols' in gdb 5.0, it goes into an infinite
Tony> loop and segvs. Here's where the output starts to loop:
What is going on is that we changed the class object to be a static
field in the class itself. If you try to print this you'll get an
infinite loop.
We should teach gdb not to do this, but nobody has had the time (or
maybe inclination) yet :-(
Tom