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Re: [9/10] RFC: implement the $_exception convenience variable


> 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.


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