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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Aspertame Man <AspertameMan@att.net>
Cc: gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A possible super feature to add to gcc
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0my682g8by.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291581040.2886.6.camel@netbook> (Aspertame Man's message of "Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:30:40 -0600")


AspertameMan wrote:

>  Back in the 1970's when we ran fortran on an IBM machine we had this
>  really powerful command called CALL FDUMP that if inserted into a
>  program would send the names and values of every variable, at the time
>  of its call, to a printer or file. [...]

This sounds like a job for a scriptable debugger, or systemtap
   probe process("a.out").statement("*@file.c:444") { log($$vars$$) }
or somesuch run-time tool.

- FChE

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-05 20:30 Aspertame Man
2010-12-05 20:41 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2010-12-05 23:04 ` Joern Rennecke
2010-12-06 11:49   ` Aspertame Man
2010-12-06 11:52     ` Richard Kenner
2010-12-06 12:20     ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-06 16:44 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

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