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

[Pedro Alves]

On 12/18/2013 01:20 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
> 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.

Yeah.  FAOD, I think using __PRETTY_FUNCTION__/__func__
would be great.

-- 
Pedro Alves