RE: What are the procedures to use self declared convenience functions in GDB?

["Aktemur, Tankut Baris" <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com>]

On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 9:39 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2020-11-18 12:18 a.m., Nagmat Nazar wrote:
> > Dear Simon,
> >
> > I have written convenience function as on explanation:
> > https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Functions-In-Python.html
> > greet.py
> > ```
> >
> > class Greet (gdb.Function):
> >   """Return string to greet someone.
> > Takes a name as argument."""
> >
> >   def __init__ (self):
> >     super (Greet, self).__init__ ("greet")
> >
> >   def invoke (self, name):
> >     return "Hello, %s!" % name.string ()
> >
> > Greet ()
> >
> > ```
> > image.png
> >
> > I have placed greet.py into ~/gdb/python/lib/gdb/function/, but as you see on the picture
> it still gives error. What else shall I do in order to use this function?
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Nagmat
> 
> Just putting the file in ~/gdb/python/lib/gdb/function/ won't magically load it.
> 
> You should either use the source command inside GDB (or in a .gdbinit) or the -x switch when
> starting GDB.
> 
> Simon

If you list the file name in gdb/data-directory/Makefile.in's PYTHON_FILE_LIST, I believe
it's loaded automatically at GDB startup time.

-Baris


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