Re: [cdt-dev] debugger question

[Elena Laskavaia <elaskavaia@xxxxxxx>]

CDT supports many versions of gdb including older ones. I don't think 
people will be happy if we suddenly drop this support,
but thanks for info, I did not know this command exist, maybe we can 
dynamically figure out gdb version.

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 17:35:40 Elena Laskavaia wrote:
>   
> > OK I guess we have to figure out how to re-create expression from 
> > "children" that gdb sends in particular "base class" child.
> > see pr https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=244025
> >
> > Any ideas how to distinguish it from real fields?
> >     
>
> To recreate expression, you need to use the -var-info-path-expression
> MI command. Any other approach is not going to be reliable. Please see:
>
> 	http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_25.html#SEC421
>
> for documentation. The command was added to gdb tree on 2007-08-31, and
> should be included in both gdb 6.7 and 6.8 releases.
>
> - Volodya
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