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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gdb: add linux_nat_debug_printf macro
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:11:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2nopsjz.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200702193034.22279-1-simon.marchi@efficios.com> (Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches's message of "Thu, 2 Jul 2020 15:30:34 -0400")

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Simon> To address both of these issues, I suggest adding this macro for
Simon> printing debug statements, which automatically includes the function
Simon> name.  It also includes the `[linux-nat]` prefix to clarify which part
Simon> of GDB printed this (I think that ideally, all debug prints would
Simon> include such a tag).

Yeah.  After seeing your patch I think all the debug prints should be
done this way.

Simon> The `__func__` magic symbol is used to get the function name.
Simon> Unfortunately, in the case of methods, it only contains the method name,

We could check for GCC and use __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, though that is the
full signature, so it might be pretty long.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-12 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-02 19:30 Simon Marchi
2020-07-03 17:33 ` Joel Brobecker
2020-07-08 21:07   ` [PATCH] " Simon Marchi
2020-07-10 11:47     ` Gary Benson
2020-07-10 13:55       ` Simon Marchi
2020-07-10 14:23         ` Gary Benson
2020-07-13 14:32         ` Joel Brobecker
2020-07-13 14:38           ` Simon Marchi
2020-07-13 14:56             ` Gary Benson
2020-07-12 17:11 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-08-19  2:56   ` [RFC PATCH] " Simon Marchi
2020-08-19  3:39     ` Simon Marchi
2020-08-19  3:44       ` Simon Marchi

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