[Libreoffice] gdb: catching exceptions...

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 17 of October 2011, Michael Stahl wrote:
> since my smoketest failed again today, i've distracted myself a bit with
> GDB Python scripting, the result of which is a command that can break
> when an exception is thrown, but only if a certain function (which is
> given as parameter) is on the stack.
>
> seems to work, but it is quite slow: finding the smoketest exception in
> SfxBaseModel::getTitle takes GDB 4 minutes of CPU time.
>
> now probably somebody will tell me that i'm too stupid to RTFM and there
> is a much simpler way to do this :)

 Possibly 'help catch' and 'help commands' could make this easier/faster, but 
I have not actually tried it.

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 Lubos Lunak
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