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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][gdb] Add debug_{exp,val}
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:55:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jyrhp0i.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220803135752.GA8436@delia.home> (Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches's message of "Wed, 3 Aug 2022 15:57:53 +0200")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Tom> Hi,
Tom> When debugging cc1 I heavily rely on simple one-parameter debug functions
Tom> that allow me to inspect a variable of a common type, like:
Tom> - debug_generic_expr
Tom> - debug_gimple_stmt
Tom> - debug_rtx
Tom> and I miss similar function in gdb.

Tom> Add functions to dump variables of types 'value' and 'expression':
Tom> - debug_exp, and
Tom> - debug_val.

Seems fine to me.
Thanks.

Tom

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-03 13:57 Tom de Vries
2022-08-04 13:07 ` Luis Machado
2022-08-04 17:55 ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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