| Debugging with GDB: GDB/M2 |
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Some GDB commands have little use when debugging Modula-2 programs.
Five subcommands of set print and show print apply
specifically to C and C++: ‘vtbl’, ‘demangle’,
‘asm-demangle’, ‘object’, and ‘union’. The first four
apply to C++, and the last to the C union type, which has no direct
analogue in Modula-2.
The @ operator (see Expressions), while available
with any language, is not useful with Modula-2. Its
intent is to aid the debugging of dynamic arrays, which cannot be
created in Modula-2 as they can in C or C++. However, because an
address can be specified by an integral constant, the construct
‘{type}adrexp
’ is still useful.
In GDB scripts, the Modula-2 inequality operator # is
interpreted as the beginning of a comment. Use <> instead.