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Q: How can I watch a bool variable with RHIDE or GDB? 
When I try, the debugger always displays void....
A:  With the default COFF debugging format, you can't: it doesn't
support the bool data type.  You have to switch to stabs
debugging format; see switching to stabs, for details.