[gnu.gdb.bug] gdb 2.4 bug

rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) (12/30/88)

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 88 18:25:36 PST
From: phr%WEB.Berkeley.EDU@lilac.berkeley.edu
To: rms@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
Subject: gdb 2.4 bug

Giving an expression arg to set-max doesn't appear to work.
e.g.
(gdb) print (struct Lisp_String) ...
  $41 = {size = 34, data = {"("}}
(gdb) set-max $.size
(gdb) x/s &$.data		;;; loses
It is as if I had typed set-max 0.
Otherwise, this would be a useful macro.