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Re: expanding c-macros in gdb




On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:42:25PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Howind Axel, Externer Dienstleister wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to make gdb understand that the command
> > > print REFP_XYZ(a).abc is the same as print xyz_ptr->s_xyz.r_xyz[i].xyz.abc?
> > >
> > > I have read in the gcc manual that compiling with -g3 stores information
> > > about all defined macros, so that "Some debuggers support macro
> > > expansion when you use `-g3'."
> > > This does not seem to work with gdb (gcc 2.95.2, gdb 5.0, on HP-UX 10.20).
> >
> > Try compiling with -gdwarf-2 or -gstabs+ instead of -g3.  Perhaps that
> > would help (I have no idea whether DWARF2 is supported on HP-UX).
>
> It doesn't (yet).  At least -gdwarf-2 -g3 saves the necessary
> information, we just don't use it.
>
> Hopefully I'll have time to tackle this when I'm finished with v3.
It's pretty simple, just need to integrate cpplib with the c-parser.

>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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