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Asked: 2026-05-22T00:38:09+00:00

This may be a dumb question, I realize, but this is quite frustrating for

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This may be a dumb question, I realize, but this is quite frustrating for me right now so I’m going to ask anyway.

I’m following the C/C++ Development User Guide in the Eclipse help.

I’m at C/C++ Development User Guide -> Getting Started -> Debugging projects

At this point I am told the following:

In the Variables view, right-click the input variable, and select Change Value... and type 'm' between the single quotes and hit OK.

Except, there is no Change Value...! Here is a screenshot of what it looks like for me:

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Where is Change Value...? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok I figured things out after much pain.

    I had installed the gdb provided by XCode 3:

    GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1515) (Sat Jan 15 08:33:48 UTC 2011)

    There appears to be better compatibility with Eclipse and Photran, and perhaps with whatever version of the GCC I was using.

    The solution to my problem came about by installing the fink gdb package, which is GDB 7.1.

    Note that this is called with fsf-gdb to avoid a conflict with the Apple Dev Tools GDB.

    Thus, you’re going to need to change your debug configuration in eclipse to point to fsf-gdb from gdb.

    May this help any other poor souls who happen to want to debug with Photran on a mac.

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