Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> * debugger ability to print variables symbolically
> I might be misunderstanding what you're getting at here, but if you want
> to be able to use #define'd values using their name, you can get that by
> compiling with -g3. With -g3 and gdb, you can do things like:
> (gdb) p tblinfo[i].dobj.dump & ~(DUMP_COMPONENT_COMMENT |
> DUMP_COMPONENT_SECLABEL | DUMP_COMPONENT_USERMAP | DUMP_COMPONENT_ACL)
> where all the DUMP_COMPONENT items are #define's.
Yes, but if you just do "p tblinfo[i].dobj.dump", you're only going to get
a number, right? The value-added for an enum type is that the debugger
knows which symbol to substitute for a numeric value when printing. But
that stops working if what's in the variable is some OR of the values the
debugger knows about.
regards, tom lane