Re: gdb fails to see symbol

[David Cogen]

Maurizio Loreti wrote:

> Ulrich Lauther <ulrich.lauther@siemens.com> writes:
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> > Is this a common problem?
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> no
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When I used g++ I used to see that all the time. Never did figure out 
what was wrong, and most people I asked said what you heard: "it doesn't 
happen to me". It was unpredictable. I believe I used to resort to 
copying variables I wanted to debug into globals, etc. Not pleasant.

It would only happen with variables in nested scope; never a variable at 
function scope.

I believe (not entirely positive; was a while ago) that I finally 
realized that only later versions of g++ exhibited this bug, and I went 
back to 2.95.2 and stayed there. 2.95.2 was 3 times faster than the 
later versions; an added bonus.