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.