[RFC] Let "gcore" command accept a suffix argument

[Hui Zhu]

You are good on it.
Make a new patch is more easy than make me clear with this idea.  :)

Thanks,
Hui

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 22:00, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> But I think we have know the type of the val that we want output, the
>> string we want it as string, the number we want it to be number.
>> Are you sure we need point out the type of val to be output?
>>
>> And this idea is out of my ability.  Sorry about it.
>
> If you could have a look at how the "printf" command is implemented,
> you might be surprised as to how easy this task might be.  For someone
> who tackled the really complex project of grafting process record onto
> GDB, I sincerely think that this should nearly be a no-brainer for you:
>
>  1. Extract out the entire contents of the printf_command implementation
>     into a separate function. Let's call it ui_printf:
>
>       void
>       ui_printf (char *args, ui_file *stream)
>
>  2. Adjust the body so that all the printf/puts, etc, basically anything
>     printing on stdout, are replace by equivalent calls that print in
>     the given ui_file *stream;
>
>  3. Implement the body of printf_command by simply calling this new
>     function with gdb_stdout as the ui_file;
>
>       printf_command (char *args, int from_tty)
>       {
>         ui_printf (args, gdb_stout);
>       }
>
>  4. Implement the eval function roughly like so:
>
>        eval_command (char *args, int from_tty)
>        {
>          struct ui_file *ui_out = mem_fileopen ();
>          char *expanded;
>          struct cleanup *old_chain;
>
>          ui_printf (args, ui_out);  // That's the new function extracted
>                                     // from printf_command, which prints
>                                     // in a ui_file instead of stdout.
>          expanded = ui_file_xstrdup (ui_out, NULL);
>          old_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, expanded);
>          execute_command (expanded, from_tty);
>          do_cleanups (old_chain);
>        }
>
> --
> Joel
>