[PATCH 2/6] gdbserver: remove function abbrevs from debugging text

Doug Evans dje@google.com
Wed Dec 18 01:20:00 GMT 2013


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2013 05:43 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
>> This patch removes the function abbreviations from the debugging output.
>
> Function abbreviations are also mentioned in linux-nat debugging output.
> IWBN to keep them consistent.

Sure.  I'll submit a separate patch for that.

>> In one example it's wrong (GPS vs get_detach_signal), and I rarely
>> keep in cache the translation to function name.
>
> The function names in debugging output will be out of sync as function
> names are changed, unless macro __func__ is used.  However, __func__
> is defined in C99 and we are using C90 (?) in GDB.

I think it's reasonable to do what we do for gdb_assert, namely just
punt on printing the name if the feature isn't present.

I see I missed at least one function with an abbreviated function name anyway.



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