Re: Bug in bit fields / gdb & large struct/union

[Andrew Cagney]

> "Donald Gillies" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > In gdb (4.18) and with gcc (2.9.5), i cannot change the
> > values of a bit field variable embedded in an elaborate struct/union
> > with the gdb debugger.  The debugger gladly accepts it when i try to
> > change the bit field, but i think it's secretly writing the data to
> > the wrong location in memory (see below).
>
>
> This is an ancient version of GDB.  You can get a newer one from
> sources.redhat.com, or from any GNU mirror.

btw, you'll want to test something from:

http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/download/

as gdb 5.0 didn't build on freebsd.  Current snaps are comming from the 
unreleased 5.1 branch.

        Andrew.