Re: DDD: problem with variables not appearing to exist

[Andrew Gaylard]

Aditya Chaubal wrote:
> I'm having what I think is a similar issue.  I have an object
> belonging to a pubicly derived class and when I try to print or
> display a data structure that was defined 'protected' in the base
> class of that object, I get a message saying that data structure does
> not exist in the curent context.  I haven't yet found a way around
> this.  Any help/insight would be appreciated.
>
> - Aditya
>
>
> On 7/28/05, Nick Scott Blackwell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > To whomever might be able to help,
> >
> > I'm having some problems with using ddd to debug a C++ program of mine.  In
> > one of the code modules, I can't seem to get ddd to display anything,
> > variables, data structures, or anything else.  I have no problems viewing
> > data in any other module of the program, but for this data, I get messages
> > like "no symbol 'variablename' in current context."  The data I'm trying to
> > look at is in a virtual member function, and the function is declared as
> > "protected" in the class definition.  Is there any reason you're aware of
> > that would cause ddd to do this?  I'd very much appreciate any input you're
> > able to provide.  Thanks!
> >
> > Nick Blackwell

Guys,
when you come across an issue such as this,  the first thing to try
is to use gdb directly to see if it produces the correct output.

If it doesn't, then there's nothing that DDD can add.

If it does, then we'll need to fix DDD.

Andrew.