Re: Nested control structures in Apple GDB broken?

[Andrew Cagney]

Ryan Govostes wrote:

> However, if I try this:
>
>     if($r3 == 0)
>     printf "$r3 is 0.\n"
>     else
>     if($r3 > 0)
>     printf "$r3 is greater than 0.\n"
>     else
>     printf "$r3 is less than 0.\n"
>     end
>     end

On Fedora Core 3 I'm seeing:

GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-12-cvs
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This GDB was configured as "powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"...Using host 
libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
Breakpoint 1 at 0x1005c41c: file /home/scratch/GDB/src/gdb/utils.c, line 
873.
Breakpoint 2 at 0x1009ae7c: file 
/home/scratch/GDB/src/gdb/cli/cli-cmds.c, line 193.
(top-gdb) b main
Breakpoint 3 at 0x1004e62c: file /home/scratch/GDB/src/gdb/gdb.c, line 31.
(top-gdb) run
Starting program: 
/home/scratch/GDB/N-localhost-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/gdb/gdb

Breakpoint 3, main (argc=0x1, argv=0x7ffff944)
    at /home/scratch/GDB/src/gdb/gdb.c:31
31        args.argc = argc;
(top-gdb) if($r3 == 0)
 > printf "$r3 is 0.\n"
 >else
 > if($r3 > 0)
  > printf "$r3 is greater than 0.\n"
  >else
  > printf "$r3 is less than 0.\n"
  >end
 >end
$r3 is greater than 0.
(top-gdb) print $r3
$1 = 0x1
(top-gdb)

of course this GDB won't help you.

Andrew