[PATCH] Add printf format specifier for printing enumerator

Simon Marchi simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Fri Feb 5 15:03:00 GMT 2016


On 2016-02-05 09:51, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 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

No, but I think it's a good idea.

Do you see _as_string as applicable to any type, a bit like str() in 
Python, or just to some specific types that we chose and make sense 
(like enum)?



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