From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GDB and compiler-operations
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:59:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zzhxemq.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv36uljtfb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:12:06 -0400")
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
Stefan> Along the way I discovered that while `sizeof` works great, `offsetof`
Stefan> gives me an error:
Stefan> No symbol "offsetof" in current context.
Stefan> any idea why this is (and how to fix it)?
Other people answered the why. To fix it you have two options.
One, define an offsetof macro:
(gdb) macro define offsetof(type, field) ((int) (((type *) 0)->field))
The gdb C expression parser will automatically use macros you define
interactively.
Two, instead of using offsetof to inspect a type, upgrade to a newish
(8.1 or better) gdb and use "ptype/o":
(gdb) ptype/o struct Lisp_Vector
/* offset | size */ type = struct Lisp_Vector {
/* 0 | 8 */ union vectorlike_header {
/* 8 */ ptrdiff_t size;
/* 1 */ char gcaligned;
/* total size (bytes): 8 */
} header;
/* 8 | 0 */ Lisp_Object contents[];
/* total size (bytes): 8 */
}
The output here is modeled on the pahole utility.
If you can't upgrade gdb, there's a "pahole.py" script out there that
adds a pahole command to gdb instead. I can email it if you really
need it, but some distros installed it by default. So you could just
try "(gdb) pahole struct Lisp_Vector".
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 0:41 Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems Stefan Monnier
2018-09-06 6:51 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-06 12:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 7:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 13:45 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 14:12 ` GDB and compiler-operations (was: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems) Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 15:16 ` GDB and compiler-operations Andreas Schwab
2018-09-07 15:48 ` GDB and compiler-operations (was: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems) Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 15:58 ` GDB and compiler-operations Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 17:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:59 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-09-07 14:19 ` Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 16:27 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 18:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 19:05 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 12:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 19:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:03 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 1:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 3:04 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 3:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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