Yes, I saw some of these threads, but nothing seemed to shed light on fixes for the scoping of this. It is good to know Ada does this as well so that maybe us Ada/Pascal people can get together and come up with a fix.

I submitted code that demonstrates this with my bug report as well....

Adam

-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Cagney [mailto:ac131313@cygnus.com] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:40 PM To: Daniel Jacobowitz; Pierre Muller Cc: Maurice Lombardi; adam.oldham@marconi.com; gdb@sources.redhat.com; core@freepascal.org; gpc@gnu.de Subject: Re: GDB scope does not work quite right for Pascal

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:57:32PM +0200, Maurice Lombardi wrote:

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There are several remarks to that bug report:

1. I don't know at all how nested functions work in C

Are they allowed?

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AKAIK no, they are not allowed, and this is the root of the problem, since gdb is written mainly by/for C programmers.

They aren't allowed by standard C. GCC does in fact allow them, although their use isn't recommended. I think GDB's support for them is somewhat crusty.

The thread http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-07/msg00714.html is probably relevant.

Following on Joel's strategy (Ada) the first thing needed is probably a testcase so that people know the status of the underlying code

Andrew