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Re: [PATCH] Add printf format specifier for printing enumerator
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:51:08 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add printf format specifier for printing enumerator
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On 02/05/2016 02:17 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> (gdb) printf "Visiting node of type %q\n", node
> Visiting node of type NODE_INTEGER
> What do you think?
Did you consider a convenience function to convert a value
to string, instead? Then you'd write:
(gdb) printf "Visiting node of type %s\n", $_as_string(node)
And maybe do other things with it.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves