PR# 12604 Evaluating watch expression which is static access of external fails

Problem Report Summary
Submitter: prestoat2000
Category: Debugger
Priority: Medium
Date: 2007/05/06
Class: Bug
Severity: Serious
Number: 12604
Release: 6.0.68140
Confidential: No
Status: Closed
Responsible: jfiat_es
Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070225 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Synopsis: Evaluating watch expression which is static access of external fails

Description
Evaluating a watch expression which is a static access of an external in
another class (not the current class) fails.  The error says:

   EXTERNAL_B => An error occurred during the evaluation of external call : e

To Reproduce
Compile with attached classes and .ecf file.
Click on Step into Routine.
Enter watch expression {TEST1}.e.  Evaluation of expression fails but should not.
Problem Report Interactions
From:jfiat_es    Date:2007/05/16    Status: Closed    Download   
The support for static routine evaluation had been added to the debugger evaluator.
Thus this issue is now fixed by revision rev#68367 .

From:prestoat2000    Date:2007/05/06    Download   
Attachments for problem report #12604

Attachment: root_class.e     Size:111
Attachment: test1.e     Size:151
Attachment: sample.ecf     Size:1042