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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Sobisch via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Cc: Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there an option to "silent-step"/ "silent-next" (possibly in python and/or mi)?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:59:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7q1xxpt.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36c20830-7713-bff5-ca88-ea8bc2aab8b5@gnu.org> (Simon Sobisch via Gdb's message of "Wed, 8 Feb 2023 14:44:07 +0100")

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Sobisch via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

Simon> For "stepping in the current source" (given a mixed-source) I look for
Simon> a way to "silent step" / "silent next".
Simon> This will be useful for example if you debug within Bison and/or Flex
Simon> generated sources and don't want to step through the state / token
Simon> machine, having only the Bison / Flex _source_ be visible.

Simon> Getting the source name from the frame and comparing this after a
Simon> step/next is no big problem in GDB using python
Simon>    gdb.selected_frame().find_sal().symtab.fullname()

Simon> Using GDB in TUI mode I commonly "stay" in the source I'm interested
Simon> in this way, but the GDB command line gets "flooded" with all the
Simon> intermediate frame positions I'm not interested in.

Simon> So: is there a way to do a "step"/"next" with suppressing the normal
Simon> output and mi stop events normally send?

I don't think there is right now.  I think suppressing output during
these kinds of commands is a known issue, but nobody has looked into
what would be needed to fix it.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-10 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-08 13:44 Simon Sobisch
2023-02-09  7:00 ` Chris Packham
2023-02-09  8:36   ` Simon Sobisch
2023-02-10 16:59 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2023-02-12 12:38   ` Philippe Waroquiers
2023-02-12 14:46     ` Tom Tromey
2023-02-12 17:22       ` Philippe Waroquiers
2023-02-13  7:38         ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris

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