Re: GTK: When 0 + 1 = 0

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote:

> When I run this through the debugger, it gets to the line:
>
> len = pos + 1;
>
> and it displays that pos is zero and len is zero.  In fact, it just swings through this code
> completely out of order.  I have no idea what gtk_main is doing, but when I code len = pos +0 and pos is
> zero, I expect len to be 1.
>
> Also, it seems that the line 
>
>  pos = gtk_editable_get_position(GTK_EDITABLE(widget));
>
> returns a huge number.  I'm completely confused at this point.  There must be a reason that this behavior 
> is 
> happening, but I have no clue as to why.

I bet you are compiling with optimization.  If your program uses
Automake, try

        make -s clean
        make -s CFLAGS='-g'

and then debug.  If you use a custom Makefile, edit CFLAGS in it.

hope this helps
Paul