Re: [q-lang-users] Status on my attempt to port Q to amd64

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Andrew Berg wrote:
> Most of the interesting variables in the environment setup seem to be  
> global, or at least external to the q.c file, and the "print" command 
> in  gdb tells me that there is <<No symbol "source" in current 
> context.>>   This is also the case for "outid" and "qpath" and seemingly 
> lots of other  variables.  As far as I can tell, they aren't macros.  
> Can anyone tell me  why they are invisible to the debugger?

Try __qq__source instead. The external global symbols in the interpreter 
are stropped with a prefix (see mangle.h, this is created automatically 
with the mangle.sh script) to prevent name collisions with shared libs 
linked with the interpreter.

Albert

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