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changeset 79263:e1394a662145
(Watch Expressions): Describe gdb-delete-out-of-scope.
| author | Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> |
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| date | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:54:58 +0000 |
| parents | 452dee639463 |
| children | 0c1e5fd29009 |
| files | man/building.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/building.texi Tue Oct 30 05:53:13 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/building.texi Tue Oct 30 05:54:58 2007 +0000 @@ -1117,6 +1117,15 @@ scope less noticeable. When a variable goes out of scope you can't edit its value. +@vindex gdb-delete-out-of-scope + If the variable @code{gdb-delete-out-of-scope} is +non-@code{nil} (the default value), Emacs automatically deletes watch +expressions which go out of scope. This is safest because GDB may +think that a variable in a new frame is an old one that previously +went of of scope. Sometimes, when re-entering the same function, +it may be useful to set this value to nil so that you don't need to +recreate the watch expression. + @vindex gdb-use-colon-colon-notation If the variable @code{gdb-use-colon-colon-notation} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs uses the @samp{@var{function}::@var{variable}}