Viewing statics while debugging

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Tom Doster - 30 May 2004 22:46 GMT

How can I see the value of a static variable when debugging? Static's don't show up in the variable-window and when I type the name of a static variable in the watch-window the debugger says this the symbol is not defined

I'm in Visual C++ 6.0

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Tom

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Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] - 30 May 2004 22:54 GMT

> How can I see the value of a static variable when debugging? Static's
> don't show up in the variable-window and when I type the name of a
> static variable in the watch-window the debugger says this the symbol
> is not defined.
>
> I'm in Visual C++ 6.0.

Type the fully qualified name:

struct X
{
static int i;
};

--> You need to type X::i in the watch window.

-cd

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Tom Doster - 31 May 2004 02:36 GMT

Thanks. How would I reference with the debugger a static variable that is declared and defined in a member function of a class

void theClass::theMemberFunction()

static int theVariableOfInterest = 5
. . .
// do some things including setting theVariableOfInterest to some new valu
// Somewhere down here put a breakpoin

I've tried various things, but none worked

BTW: Will this variable be shared across all instances of class 'theClass'

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To

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Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] - 31 May 2004 03:09 GMT

> Thanks. How would I reference with the debugger a static variable
> that is declared and defined in a member function of a class?

AFIAK, you can't.

> void theClass::theMemberFunction()
> {
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>
> I've tried various things, but none worked.

You could set a breakpoint in the function, determine the address of the
local static, and then add a watch to that address, I suppose.

> BTW: Will this variable be shared across all instances of class
> 'theClass'?

Yes.

-cd

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