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Re: conditional breakpoint with (char* ) string condition


On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 09:54 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:49:49PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 08:45:27 -0400
> > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > > Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> > > 
> > > I wonder.  Should we add some common builtin functions to GDB?
> > > 
> > >   b gui/R.cpp:190 if $gdb_strcmp (cmd, "train")
> > 
> > It would be nice, I think.  `streq' might be a better name, though.
> 
> Well, I'd rather have strcmp, but I agree that I botched it - I was
> going for something with the same semantics as C strcmp :-)
> 

IMHO, this is something that has been 'missing' from GDB from day 1.
Building in some common functions into GDB would be a big win.

How about strlen as well?

-=# Paul #=-


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