From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Chris Johns <chris@contemporary.net.au>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Reading a static variable in Python
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eijsjef4.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B971421.8080006@contemporary.net.au> (Chris Johns's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:09 +1100")
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Johns <chris@contemporary.net.au> writes:
Chris> I am adding pretty printers for RTEMS to gdb. In the RTEMS operating
Chris> system elements such as a semaphore are given an id. I would like to
Chris> print the actual semaphore data given a semaphore id. To do this I
Chris> need to read a kernel structure from a table indexed via a bit field
Chris> in the id. As an example the semaphore's table is declared in RTEMS
Chris> as:
Chris> RTEMS_SEM_EXTERN Objects_Information _Semaphore_Information;
This isn't really enough information for us to help you.
What does Objects_Information look like?
Chris> I am stuck on how to create a new gdb.Value variable in Python.
Use gdb.parse_and_eval. This wasn't added until after 7.0.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-10 3:38 Chris Johns
2010-03-10 17:05 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-03-11 1:49 ` Chris Johns
2010-03-11 16:53 ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-11 17:15 ` Phil Muldoon
2010-03-11 17:58 ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-11 23:40 ` Chris Johns
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