Re: expanding c-macros in gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:42:25PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Howind Axel, Externer Dienstleister wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to make gdb understand that the command
> > print REFP_XYZ(a).abc is the same as print xyz_ptr->s_xyz.r_xyz[i].xyz.abc?
> > 
> > I have read in the gcc manual that compiling with -g3 stores information
> > about all defined macros, so that "Some debuggers support macro 
> > expansion when you use `-g3'."
> > This does not seem to work with gdb (gcc 2.95.2, gdb 5.0, on HP-UX 10.20).
> 
> Try compiling with -gdwarf-2 or -gstabs+ instead of -g3.  Perhaps that 
> would help (I have no idea whether DWARF2 is supported on HP-UX).

It doesn't (yet).  At least -gdwarf-2 -g3 saves the necessary
information, we just don't use it.

Hopefully I'll have time to tackle this when I'm finished with v3.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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