Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 6/7] scripts/dump-guest-memory.py: add vmcoreinfo

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 07/11/17 15:58, Marc-André Lureau wrote:

>>> How do you access a static inside a function? Gdb can look it up but
>>> complains that it's not in current context.
>>>
>>
>> According to <https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Variables.html>,
>> the magic incantation is
>>
>>   function::variable
>>
> 
> Thanks that works! I'll update the patch

Great!

> 
>> If this doesn't work (in case the realize function isn't on the stack at
>> all), then I agree the variable should be made file scope.
>>
> 
> Why would it matter if realize is on the stack? It's likely not :)

I agree the realize function will likely not be on the stack, and I also
agree that it should not matter. However, the gdb docs seemed a bit
unclear to me regarding this, so I wasn't 100% sure without trying.

Thanks
Laszlo