Debugging with no serial port
Martin, Tim
tim.martin at viasat.com
Sat Aug 12 02:30:57 EST 2006
> >
> > I tried this as well and have the same GDB synchronization
> problem e.g.
> >
> > break log_stuff
> > commands
> > silent
> > if (variable_logging_enabled)
> > printf "(%d,%d)\n",stuff1_variable,stuff2_variable
> > end
> > cont
> > end
> >
> That's too bad. I wonder if you could run gdb from expect or
> some other auto-scripting language and have it issue the
> 'cont' once all data is printed (Have your code spit out a
> special 'end of data' delimiter).
>
> Just a thought - no idea if it would work.
>
What a brilliant idea! I tried this and it works perfectly. Having no
previous expect experience, I was able to generate and modify the expect
script with "autoexpect" in about 10 minutes.
Thanks!
Tim
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