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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:06:03 -0400
From: ISHWAR RATTAN <rattan@cps.cmich.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: Acid question?
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Thanks -N flag did the trick.

-ishwar

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Axel Belinfante wrote:

> 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
>>>
>