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Re: Command File Scope Checking


On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:15:31PM +0100, Rob Quill wrote:
> On 23/10/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:45:23 +0100
> >> From: "Rob Quill" <rob.quill@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Is it possible to check if a variable is in scope when using a command
> >> file, because I don't want control to return to GDB when a variable
> >> goes out of scope, so I would like to know if a variable is in scope
> >> before I check the value of it.
> >
> >    (gdb) info address foobar
> >    No symbol "foobar" in current context.
> 
> So is it possible to check the result of doing info address foobar,
> whilst still in the command file? So that if it is out of scope the
> script can do action B instead of action A?

No, this sort of thing is not possible in the current GDB scripting
interface.  Yet, anyway.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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