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author | David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com> | 2016-12-20 17:33:58 +0000 |
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committer | David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com> | 2016-12-20 17:33:58 +0000 |
commit | bf891738554855a8aa13a06d50f8f6c95cf2dde7 (patch) | |
tree | 41de6c816d3090e928fc74f6fc87151d6cac3ad4 /docs/ProgrammersManual.rst | |
parent | f51b34f067419856da25e2ca5a286830c76ea6a2 (diff) |
Add some brief documentation about GDB pretty printers
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diff --git a/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst b/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst index 7e11983bff67..6f136ce59500 100644 --- a/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst +++ b/docs/ProgrammersManual.rst @@ -2194,6 +2194,22 @@ reverse) is O(1) worst case. Testing and setting bits within 128 bits (depends on size) of the current bit is also O(1). As a general statement, testing/setting bits in a SparseBitVector is O(distance away from last set bit). +.. _debugging: + +Debugging +========= + +A handful of `GDB pretty printers +<https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Pretty-Printing.html>`__ are +provided for some of the core LLVM libraries. To use them, execute the +following (or add it to your ``~/.gdbinit``):: + + source /path/to/llvm/src/utils/gdb-scripts/prettyprinters.py + +It also might be handy to enable the `print pretty +<http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gdb/html_node/gdb_57.html`__ option to +avoid data structures being printed as a big block of text. + .. _common: Helpful Hints for Common Operations |