Re: DDD graph display of two dimensional arrays?

[Peter Toft]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Peter Toft wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> Focus of this mail is DDD on 1D and 2D arrays.
> 
> I have pasted a small C-code program at 
> http://pastebin.com/f63009dd8
> (download from http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f63009dd8)
> which I like your opinion on.
> 
> I compile it with "gcc -g"
> Throw a breakpoint on line 59 and run under DDD.
> 
> * I can see the contents of the "a"-vector in DDD by
>   (gdb) graph display *a @ 3
>   Very cool!
> 
> * I can see the matrix (2D array) contents of the "c"
>   matrix by
>   (gdb) graph display c
>   Elegant - very cool!
> 
> * However how can I use DDD to see the contents of "b"
>   similar to the contents of "c"?
>   The best I can do is 
>   (gdb) graph display b
>   (gdb) graph display (*b[0] @ 3)  dependent on 3
>   (gdb) graph display (*b[1] @ 3)  dependent on 3
>   ** if 3 is the "b" graph display **
>   Obviously I would like to do the display in one command rather 
>   than three, and I think I will manually have to supply
>   the length of the vectors, but it seems that I cannot do a 
>   compound DDD-operation like
>   (gdb) graph display **b @3 @2
>   Am I overlooking something or is it simply a limitation of DDD?
> 
> My humble thank you to all of you DDD hackers - very very nice program
> you have made!!

Note that I also later today understood that to a large degree it boils 
down to GDB -> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-07/msg00140.html
But I want the feature in ddd :)

If I add a gdb-macro (to ~/.gdbinit)

define matprint2                                                                
                   
  set $i = 0                                                                    
                   
  print                                                                         
                   
  printf "{{"                                                                   
                   
  while $i< $arg1                                                               
                   
    set $j = 0                                                                  
                   
    printf "%d",$arg0[$i][$j++]                                                 
                   
    while $j< $arg2                                                             
                   
      printf ", %d",$arg0[$i][$j++]                                             
                   
    end                                                                         
                   
    printf "}"                                                                  
                   
    set $i = 1+$i                                                               
                   
    if $i < $arg1                                                               
                   
      printf ", {"                                                              
                   
    end                                                                         
                   
  end                                                                           
                   
  printf "}\n"                                                                  
                   
end                  

then I can get my matrix values very similar to "b" access - kinda cool :)
(gdb) matprint c 2 3                                                            
                   
{{2, -2, 22}, {12, -12, 212}}     

however can the same macro is some way be augmented to also 
couple to the wanted DDD commands 
(gdb) graph display **b @3 @2
or perhaps (the not-yet existing command)
(gdb) graph displaymatrix b @3 @2

> 
> BTW; sorry if this ends as a double-post. I send a mail 8 hours ago
> which did not make it to the list, and it does not appear in the archive
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ddd/2007-07/ (does not exist)

Hrrm round-trip of >20 hrs...

Best

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Peter Toft, Ph.D. address@hidden http://petertoft.dk
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