From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Subject: Re: GDB and static variables
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 12:43:34 +0100
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Scott Frazer wrote:
> 
> a pain and ugly, it allows me to continue development.  I downloaded
> the sources for GDB and looked around in the source code hoping for
> something obvious to be wrong, but didn't have any luck.  Maybe
I wish you good luck, because it's realy a hard work to find any
possible bug in GDB from the sources.
But to your problem. I think that this is not a bug of gdb or gcc
but I think it is related to the COFF debugging format. I'm not
sure but I will test it at home with my gcc, which can produce
stabs debugging information.
I saw such weird things also in the past for me, when I tried
to evaluate the contents of a static variable and gdb didn't know
something about the type of that variable.

Robert
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