Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:32:43 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Todorovic <todorus AT eunet DOT yu>
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Subject: Re: Re: Bug in RHIDE 1.4.7 & 1.4.7.4?
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Todorovic wrote:

> >> But works correct in v1.4. When I enter simple "1 + 2" in Debug/Evaluate box
> >> it says "not available"!!! Can anybody else try it?
> >
> >What exactly did you want to achieve by that?
> >
> >Latest versions of RHIDE use a newer debugging code from GDB, so it might
> >reject operations that don't make sense, which previous GDB code accepted.
> 
> I've just found that you have to be "online" to use Debug/Evaluate. I mean,
> you have to start your program first to calculate even what is value of 1.
> If you're only in edit mode (your program isn't executed), you can't
> evaluate _anything_.
> Conclusion: Not a bug, but feature. Not so good one.
> 

Do simple test:
	start gdb without specifying program to debug
	
	type 'print 2+3' and You'll see that gdb does not have this
	limitation. RHIDE also can do this with some small modifications