From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Abri Zaaiman <azaaiman@emss.co.za>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb whatis command
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070807113217.GB24874@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186468237.5024.11.camel@azaaiman.emss.co.za>
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 08:30:37AM +0200, Abri Zaaiman wrote:
> As far as I can tell it is not possible to use whatis in an expression
> in the gdb scripting language. For example something like this:
>
> set $type = whatis myMap
>
> Is there a way to do this? If not how difficult whould it be to add
> this ability to GDB?
No, it is not possible yet.
> Ultimately I would also need to do some string manipulation to extract
> the types from the output of whatis. Is this possible in the gdb
> scripting langauge?
Neither is this.
You might want to see the discussions we've had about adding Python
bindings to the scripting interface. I hope we'll have something like
that for GDB 7.0, whenever that's ready.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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2007-08-07 6:30 Abri Zaaiman
2007-08-07 11:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-08-07 11:45 ` Abri Zaaiman
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