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Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: Acid question?
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:40:27 +0200
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you may want to try using the -N flag of 8c
(I guess you did not, and thus your variables were optimized away)

of course I may be completely wrong - trying to learn something here too...

Axel

> acid: *(main:a\D)
> 
> produces:
> <stdin:23:(error) colon: local variable not found
> 
> -ishwar
> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> 
> > *(main:a\D)
> >
> > /sys/doc/acid.ps
> > /sys/doc/acidpaper.ps
> >
> >> I am trying to learn how to use acid for source
> >> level debugging using the built-in functions. I waould like
> >> to know how to display/exmine the varibales used in the
> >> program. Sample code for context:
> >>   void main()
> >>   {
> >>     int a, b, c;
> >>     a = 12;
> >>     b = 21;
> >>     c = a + b;
> >>     print("c: %d\n", c);
> >>     exits(nil);
> >>   }
> >>
> >>   program is compiled and acid is called on the image:
> >>   acid: new()
> >>   ..
> >>   acid: bpset(print)
> >>   ..
> >>   acid: next()
> >>   ..
> >>   at this point a = 12 has been executed. How to examine
> >>   the value in acid?
> >>
> >> -ishwar
> >