http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833
Summary: Add support for inferior function calls Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-debug AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.com ReportedBy: fgouget@codeweavers.com
This would fall into the winedbg enhancement category. Here is a description of what 'Inferior function calls' are by Ulrich Weigand:
'Inferior' in gdb speak is simply that program that is being debugged. An 'inferior function call' is the option to call a function inside the debuggee while it is stopped inside the debugger. E.g. in gdb you can say 'call some_func (args)' and the effect of this is that gdb creates a new, temporary stack frame on the debuggee stack that is suitable to execute 'some_func' with the given arguments, and then lets the debuggee run until it returns from that function.
This is very useful to simplify debugging, e.g. if you have complex data structures that are awkward to view with the regular debugger commands, you can write a 'dump' function in your program, and call this function via inferior call from the debugger whenever you want to inspect that data structure.
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