any expression to tell whether a variable was optimized out?

[Thiago Jung Bauermann]

El mar, 10-03-2009 a las 08:59 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz escribió:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:48:28AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > Is there really no way to set a gdb variable to something equivalent to
> > the boolean result of valprint.c:value_optimized_out()?  Any reason for
> > that, other than that nobody needed it before?
> 
> Nope, there's no way to do it.  Really, unavailable ought to propogate
> through the expression evaluator, and give errors at some points, I
> expect...

It would be easy enough to add a method to the gdb.Value Python class
exposing this boolean. Would it help you?
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center