[Qt-creator] Locals & Watches doesn't show function arguments.

[paulo]

Well, that being so I'll install 6.8.
But what exactly is the advantage?
gdbmacros does not work without it?

André Pönitz wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 January 2010 11:22:17 ext paulo wrote:
>   
>> yáp,
>>
>> you sure know what you're talking about.
>> That really fixed it.
>> Now locals show again, and I can even set watchers.
>>     
>
> Good.
>
>   
>> Now, how did you know it was that? 
>>     
>
> I did not know, I had to guess as you did not attach the log. If you had
> attached it I would have known... ;-}
>
> [Guessing is always a bit inefficient as it usually involves extra 
> communication, both if the guess is wrong and if it is right.]
>
>   
>> The problem is not new?
>>     
>
> Indeed. Both gdb 7.0 and 7.0.1 are not supported. That's not new. Supported are
> stock 6.8 builds and binaries downloaded from ftp://ftp.qt.nokia.com/misc/gdb/
>
> 7.0 has a nasty bug making it crash, but that was fixed in 7.0.1
> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10884).
>
> However, both 7.0 and 7.0.1 do not implement gdb.parse_and_eval which we
> use heavily in Creator. This can be worked around for some cases by using
> gdb.execute, but only if that gdb.execute does not fail. It does so, however,
> for out-of-scope watchers without giving us the opportunity to recover
> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11135).
>
> Regards,
> Andre'
>
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