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Printing Sub-Class Members in GDB

Is there a setting in GDB that automatically prints all the members of a (C++) subclass from base-class pointer or do I always have to cast it to the sub-class pointer before dereferencing it.

That is I don't always want to do:

p *(SubClass*)baseClassInstance
Solution 
  • set print object
show print object

Choose whether to print derived (actual) or declared types of objects.

    I guess set print object is what you need but it works only for polymorphic types.

    https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Print-Settings.html