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Christian Lynbech <chl@tbit.dk> writes: > >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes: > > Greg> 2) Debugging scheme objects from within GDB is pretty painful. I see > Greg> the gdbint files under libguile, but am not sure how to use them. Could > Greg> someone with experience debugging Scheme objects under GDB explain their > Greg> setup, techniques, and maybe post example interactions? > > I too had problems with the example gdbinit, but here is one thing I > got out of it: > > define dp > set $gp=gdb_print($arg0) > output gdb_output > echo \n > end > document dp > Executes (display $arg0) to stdout. > end > > I have also found it handy to preprocess a C file (with gcc -E) to get > the macros unpacked, when I needed to understand or replay some of the > type/tag bit extraction stuff. When having the expanded form, you may > give i directly to `print' to see the result. Thanks (yet again!) -- I'll have to try this and look at the gdbint files more carefully. Greg