From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $_as_string convenience function
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160304230722.GB4291@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457124218-22342-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> This patch is a follow-up to "Add printf format specifier for printing
> enumerator":
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-02/msg00144.html
>
> Instead of having a solution specific to the printf command, Pedro
> suggested adding a general purpose function $_as_string() that would
> cover this use case and more.
>
> So, in order to print the textual label of an enum, one can use:
>
> (gdb) printf "Visiting node of type %s\n", $_as_string(node)
> Visiting node of type NODE_INTEGER
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> * data-directory/Makefile.in (PYTHON_FILE_LIST): Install
> gdb/function/as_string.py.
> * python/lib/gdb/function/as_string.py: New file.
Neat. I think this deserves a NEWS entry!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-04 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 20:43 Simon Marchi
2016-03-04 23:07 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2016-03-07 14:54 ` Simon Marchi
2016-03-07 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 20:19 ` Pedro Alves
2016-03-10 22:22 ` Simon Marchi
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