[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hunter) writes:
> I doubt this is a bug, more likely my own lack of understanding of how
> to use namespaces within gdb, but this seemed to be the closest forum
> to ask such a question. If their is a better forum, please advise.
>
> In the code below, I cannot access the value of Ndim while debugging
> in main.
>
> Here is the code and the gdb session.
>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <cstddef>
>
> namespace PDQ {
> void init();
> size_t Ndim;
> }
>
> void
> PDQ::init () {
> Ndim = 2;
> }
>
> int main() {
> using namespace PDQ;
>
> init();
>
> cout << "almost done; Ndim is " << Ndim << endl;
> }
>
> GDB session; code is compiled with g++ -g using gcc-2.95.2
>
> Breakpoint 1, main () at namespace_gdb.cpp:17
> (gdb) n
> (gdb) p Ndim
> No symbol "Ndim" in current context.
> (gdb) p PDQ::Ndim
> No symbol "PDQ" in current context.
> (gdb) n
> almost done; Ndim is 2
> (gdb) show version
> GNU gdb 4.18
Quote it.
Like 'PDQ::Ndim'
Debug info doesn't provide us with symbols for namespaces, so this
isn't a GDB bug.
Also, if you want nice C++ debugging, move to the latest CVS version
of GDB off of sourceware, or at the very least, 5.0.
Should finally let you work with STL containers nicely.
--Dan
C++ maintainer - GDB
