From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Levo D <may-not-reply@mail9fcb1a.bolinlang.com>
Cc: <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Hide variables?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 13:22:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm9yg6f5.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230222050804.9B8FA17750B@bolin> (Levo D.'s message of "Wed, 22 Feb 2023 05:08:04 +0000 (UTC)")
>>>>> "Levo" == Levo D <may-not-reply@mail9fcb1a.bolinlang.com> writes:
Levo> I'm generating c source. The code isn't sophisticated yet so there's a
Levo> lot of unnamed temporary variables. Would it be possible to have gdb
Levo> hide them? Is there a prefix I can use (like _hiddenMyVarName), or a
Levo> way to use a pretty printer to hide them? Is there a standard tool to
Levo> strip the variables from the binary? I use 3 compilers with gdb,
Levo> clang, gcc and tcc (tiny c compiler). I found a solution for clang but
Levo> it doesn't work with gcc or tcc
I think the answer is pretty much "no" to all.
If you can convince the compiler to mark them DW_AT_artificial then
perhaps they'd be hidden. Even then I'm not 100% certain.
You could maybe write a frame filter to do this for 'bt' but it won't be
used in other situations.
Tom
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