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Re: [9/10] RFC: implement the $_exception convenience variable
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:39:37 +0300
- Subject: Re: [9/10] RFC: implement the $_exception convenience variable
- References: <874ngojjj9 dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com> <83ehfr21c5 dot fsf at gnu dot org> <87ehebd8ef dot fsf at fleche dot redhat dot com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:13:28 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Tom> This patch introduces a new $_exception convenience variable, which is
> Tom> valid at exception catchpoints. The libstdc++ SDT probes are needed for
> Tom> this, as only they expose the information needed to compute the
> Tom> exception object -- namely, a pointer to the data, and also the
> Tom> corresponding std::type_info object.
>
> Eli> Can we tell somewhere in the docs starting with which version of
> Eli> libstdc++ this will work?
>
> Sure, how about this?
OK, thanks.