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Re: Checking variable scope

From: Jim Blandy <jimb at codesourcery dot com>
To: "Rob Quill" <rob dot quill at gmail dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:46:46 -0800
Subject: Re: Checking variable scope
References: <baf6008d0611220332r2cd073ffu7b037b70658b0ee9@mail.gmail.com> <m3ejrv70vf.fsf@codesourcery.com> <baf6008d0611230509r15a6015fxd87bde09b27667f3@mail.gmail.com>

"Rob Quill" <rob.quill@gmail.com> writes:
> I am stepping through the program, so I suppose I'd be looking to see
> if the variable is in scope at the location of the PC.
>
> How would I call lookup_symbol, given that information? I had a brief
> look, but I wasn't sure what parameters to pass to the function, or
> how to get the right values.

You can pass NULL for 'symtab' and 'is_a_field_of_this', and
VAR_DOMAIN for domain.  block is the scoping block containing the PC.
I don't know where you're calling things from, so I can't really tell
you how to get the current PC.

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