From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Shadowcat <shadowcat@phasethrough.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Dereferencing pointers on "backtrace full"
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ocpda5uz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAE192E.9050803@phasethrough.com> (shadowcat@phasethrough.com's message of "Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:21:34 -0400")
>>>>> "Shadowcat" == Shadowcat <shadowcat@phasethrough.com> writes:
Shadowcat> Is there any way for GDB to do this? I'd like to be able to
Shadowcat> type "bt full" and get, at a quick glance, the exact values
Shadowcat> of all the pointers referenced by local variables. It would
Shadowcat> make things a lot easier in a lot of situations.
There is no built-in way to do this that I know of.
You might be able to do it using Python scripting, in CVS GDB. I am not
certain... we have a "backtrace" written purely in Python on the archer
python branch, but offhand I don't recall whether all the infrastructure
bits needed for this have been pushed upstream yet.
Tom
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 10:21 Shadowcat
2009-09-14 15:44 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-09-15 17:36 ` Michael Snyder
2009-09-15 19:02 ` Tom Tromey
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