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From: Bram Kuijper <a.l.w.kuijper@rug.nl>
To: Bram Kuijper <a.l.w.kuijper@rug.nl>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: evaluate more complex expressions using gdb
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4682513D.5040903@rug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070627103533.GA11494@caradoc.them.org>

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:20:09PM +0200, Bram Kuijper wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> again a newbie question: can I also evaluate the result of subtractions, 
>> additions using the display command? Like some pointer arithmetics:
>>
>> display pointer1 - start_pointer
>>
>> If I do this, gdb gives me the following error:
>>
>> Disabling display 6 to avoid infinite recursion.
>> 6: pointer1 - start_pointer = One of the arguments you tried to pass to 
>> operator- could not be converted to what the function wants.
>>
>> Is there any way to to this using gdb?
> 
> You probably need some casts.  The error message means GDB found a
> relevant overloaded operator- in your program for one of those types.
> 

I guess that will be a browse through STL's internals then, since I 
substract two std::vector<Type>::iterators from each other.

thanks for the advice,

Bram


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-27 10:20 Bram Kuijper
2007-06-27 10:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-27 12:00   ` Bram Kuijper [this message]
2007-06-27 12:07     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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