From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1346 invoked by alias); 29 Feb 2012 16:14:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 1290 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Feb 2012 16:13:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:13:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3051C6A85; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:13:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oUHoEzpYtyBd; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:13:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6AB1C69DF; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:13:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 65A3D145615; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:13:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:16:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Stan Shebs Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dynamic printf Message-ID: <20120229161337.GD3118@adacore.com> References: <4F4DCDD5.2040807@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F4DCDD5.2040807@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00701.txt.bz2 > This patch implements a "dynamic printf", which is basically a > breakpoint with a printf;continue as its command list - but with > additional features that make it more interesting. Or like a tracepoint that does printf? Would it influence an operation such as "next", for instance? > The syntax of the command is > > dprintf ,,... The idea looks uber-cool to me! The number of times I've had to rebuild GDB to add some temporary traces... -- Joel