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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2019-07-01 19:23:07 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2019-07-01 20:19:04 +0100
commitc36205f0ccc36ac47b0191c02ceb5c06459ebea3 (patch)
tree37356286c831499fe81fc73090cf98b64f54de3f /gdb/utils.h
parent43436142530dc00cee6f3f7379bd1c2694ef2e14 (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-users/palves/format_strings.tar.gz
Document the gdb-specific formattersusers/palves/format_strings
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@@ -349,7 +349,10 @@ extern struct ui_file *gdb_stdtargin;
extern void set_screen_width_and_height (int width, int height);
/* More generic printf like operations. Filtered versions may return
- non-locally on error. */
+ non-locally on error. As an extension over plain printf, these
+ support some GDB-specific format specifiers. Particularly useful
+ here are the styling formatters: '%p[', '%p]' and '%ps'. See
+ ui_out::message for details. */
extern void fputs_filtered (const char *, struct ui_file *);