How does gdb implement printing of structs?

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How does gdb print structs? From the "GDB Internals" document referenced by zengr at how does gdb work? it looks like GDB loads symbols in from one or more symbol tables using the BFD library. If this is the case, how does gdb know how to print structs? The name of the gdb source code file(s) containing the printing algorithm would be greatly appreciated (I tried to find it myself but couldn't).

Employed Russian · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-15 17:17:28Z

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GDB does use the BFD library, but it has much more code to handle symbols than what BFD provides. You are looking for val_print() in valprint.c

edited Aug 15, 2018 at 17:17

answered Aug 1, 2011 at 14:28

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Ð.. Over a year ago

The link doesn't go to the right place anymore. Can you update the link to direct to valprint.c?

Ð.. Over a year ago

Possibly this repo link?

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