test availability of variables in context from user command

[Rob Quill]

On 23/02/07, Christophe Demarey <Christophe.Demarey@inria.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to check the availability of a variable (var1 for instance) in
> the context from an user command but I don't find any way to do this.
> Here is a (dummy) example of what I want to do :
>
> void func1(void)
> {
>     int var2 = 2;
>     ...
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   int var1 = 1;
>
>   ...
>   func1();
> }
>
> My gdb command:
> define myfunc
>   if defined(var1)
>      $res = $var1
>   else
>      $res = $var2
>   end
>   ...
> end
>
> If I break into main, res should be equals to 1, else res should be
> equals to 2.
>
> Is there a way to do this with gdb?

I modifed GDB to make in possible to cehck whether variables are in
scope. I'm not sure if that's what you want, but you can do things
like:

print $in_scope(var1);

or in a command file:

if($in_scope(var1) == 1)

i.e. do something if var1 is in scope. At the moment it only covers
certain cases as I haven't had time to finish it off, but it wouldn't
be hard to do. I modified it against 6.6, but hopefully I can forge a
patch out of it, if you want it. I've never made a patch before, but
I'm sure I'll figure it out.

Rob
>
> Thanks,
> Christophe.
>