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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Expanding macros in breakpoint conditions
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vc0qk1jx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

I was tripped by GDB today when I set a conditioned breakpoint, like
this:

  (gdb) break foobar.c:1234 if FOO > 24.5

where FOO is a macro that expands to some_struct.foo.  Then I ran the
program, and it didn't stop at the breakpoint, although the condition
surely held at some point, and that location is in a loop the program
goes through repeatedly, many times.

Then I did

  (gdb) break foobar.c:1234 if some_struct.foo > 24.5

and re-ran the program.  This time, it did stop.  Moreover, GDB does
know about the macro, because right after it stop, I typed this:

  (gdb) p FOO
  $1 = 25.001

So my question is: is GDB supposed to expand macros in breakpoint
conditions?

This was with GDB 7.6.1 on Windows debugging a MinGW program compiled
with GCC 4.7.2.

TIA


             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-21 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-21 16:53 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-21 17:09 ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-23 17:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-23 17:26     ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-23 17:33     ` Keith Seitz
2013-10-23 18:08       ` Eli Zaretskii

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