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Re: [PATCH] Add $_as_string convenience function
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:19:18 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add $_as_string convenience function
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On 03/04/2016 08:43 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
This patch is a follow-up to "Add printf format specifier for printing
enumerator":
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-02/msg00144.html
Instead of having a solution specific to the printf command, Pedro
suggested adding a general purpose function $_as_string() that would
cover this use case and more.
So, in order to print the textual label of an enum, one can use:
(gdb) printf "Visiting node of type %s\n", $_as_string(node)
Visiting node of type NODE_INTEGER
gdb/ChangeLog:
* data-directory/Makefile.in (PYTHON_FILE_LIST): Install
gdb/function/as_string.py.
* python/lib/gdb/function/as_string.py: New file.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-as-string.exp: New file.
* gdb.python/py-as-string.c: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Convenience Functions): Document $_as_string.
LGTM, thanks for doing this.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves