From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 38612 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2016 15:08:26 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 37762 invoked by uid 89); 5 Feb 2016 15:08:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=2016-02-05 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:08:24 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A599AA0B6C; Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u15F8M69027492; Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:08:23 -0500 Message-ID: <56B4BAE6.5040606@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:08:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Marchi CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add printf format specifier for printing enumerator References: <1454681876-17628-1-git-send-email-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> <56B4B6DC.1020508@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00151.txt.bz2 On 02/05/2016 03:02 PM, Simon Marchi wrote: > On 2016-02-05 09:51, Pedro Alves wrote: >> Did you consider a convenience function to convert a value >> to string, instead? Then you'd write: >> >> (gdb) printf "Visiting node of type %s\n", $_as_string(node) >> >> And maybe do other things with it. > > No, but I think it's a good idea. > > Do you see _as_string as applicable to any type, a bit like str() in > Python, or just to some specific types that we chose and make sense > (like enum)? I was thinking the former. Maybe even implement it in Python, in gdb/python/lib/gdb/function/? Thanks, Pedro Alves