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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Cc: Shadowcat <shadowcat@phasethrough.com>,         "gdb\@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Dereferencing pointers on "backtrace full"
References: <4AAE192E.9050803@phasethrough.com> 	<m3ocpda5uz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <4AAFD08B.2030404@vmware.com>
Reply-To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:02:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4AAFD08B.2030404@vmware.com> (Michael Snyder's message of "Tue, 	15 Sep 2009 10:36:11 -0700")
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> writes:

Tom> You might be able to do it using Python scripting, in CVS GDB.  I am not
Tom> certain... we have a "backtrace" written purely in Python on the archer
Tom> python branch, but offhand I don't recall whether all the infrastructure
Tom> bits needed for this have been pushed upstream yet.

Michael> Using the old-style gdb scripting language:
Michael> while (1)
Michael>   info locals
Michael>   up
Michael> end

This doesn't dereference pointers.

Tom