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Palace Chan
Palace Chan

Reputation: 9183

some convenience functions seem to be missing from gdb

I am using gdb version 7.5.1 on linux and was trying to use convenience functions like $_memeq only to find that it apparently isn't there:

Undefined command: "$_memeq". Try "help".

when i type help function I get this output:

(gdb) help function
Placeholder command for showing help on convenience functions.

List of function subcommands:


Type "help function" followed by function subcommand name for full documentation.
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".
Command name abbreviations are allowed if unambiguous.

and even apropos memeq returns nothing. Why would this be?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 288

Answers (1)

Employed Russian
Employed Russian

Reputation: 213526

From GDB 7.6 release announcement:

** New Python-based convenience functions ($_memeq, $_streq, $_strlen and $_regex)

I guess 7.5.1 is not fresh enough.

Upvotes: 3

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