GDB pretty-printers for glibc?

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 19:52:00 GMT 2017


On 13 July 2017 at 01:18, Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> Hm.  Thanks for that.  I've searched and it doesn't appear that
> Debian/Ubuntu provide these macros in any of the glibc6 packages,
> including the dev and debug packages.
>
> So, I obtained the Git repo to get them.
>
> Is there any easier way to generate the nptl_lock_constants.py file
> from the nptl_lock_constants.pysym file checked into Git, other than
> building the entirety of the glibc package?  Does the make environment
> have a target I can use that will just generate these constant files
> without compiling all the code?

There isn't one, mainly because the file is tightly integrated with
the structures in the glibc sources - it accesses internal structures
that could change between releases.

Siddhesh
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