Re: netbsd build update

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> At descriptives.c:795, gdb can't see dv, x or weight correctly. I had
> to move their declarations out of the local scope:
>
>       for (i = 0; i < dsc->var_cnt; i++)
>         {
>           struct dsc_var *dv = &dsc->vars[i];
>           double x = case_num (&c, dv->v->fv);
>         ...
>
> to the beginning of calc_descriptives(...). Then everything looked
> fine in descriptives.c, but that didn't help with the trouble in
> moments_pass_two(...), where gdb still tells me that d is a struct
> outp_driver *.

When I get confusing stuff like this from gdb, usually I edit the
Makefile to disable optimization (by removing -O2 from CFLAGS)
and then recompile the offending file (by deleting its .o then
running make) or the whole program (make clean; make).  Then gdb
is usually a lot easier to use.
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