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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: jian shen <vicshen@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb cannot call help function in replay mode
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130626184518.GA3080@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC5CAUrgKcRcm_WnJigB5UNrDFqnpQhqmh_b+hUj3t-sz1pqGw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 06:11:26 +0200, jian shen wrote:
> In below example, when I try to call function getA1() in replay mode, gdb give
> warning that it will write memory and make the execution log unusable, although
> this function does not write memory, only read memory.

The function writes to stack and registers.


> In real project, I have some helper function to dump what a handle is.  But in
> replay mode, I could not call such functions.  This limitation makes the replay
> mode almost unusable to me.  Any suggestion?

You should use Python Pretty Printer instead.  This will also work for core
file analysis where you also cannot call inferior functions.


Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-26 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-25  4:11 jian shen
2013-06-26 18:45 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2013-06-27  1:48   ` jian shen

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