Re: Dereferencing pointers on "backtrace full"

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Shadowcat" == Shadowcat  <shadowcat@phasethrough.com> writes:
>
> Shadowcat> Is there any way for GDB to do this?  I'd like to be able to
> Shadowcat> type "bt full" and get, at a quick glance, the exact values
> Shadowcat> of all the pointers referenced by local variables.  It would
> Shadowcat> make things a lot easier in a lot of situations.
>
> There is no built-in way to do this that I know of.
>
> You might be able to do it using Python scripting, in CVS GDB.  I am not
> certain... we have a "backtrace" written purely in Python on the archer
> python branch, but offhand I don't recall whether all the infrastructure
> bits needed for this have been pushed upstream yet.

Using the old-style gdb scripting language:
while (1)
  info locals
  up
end