C++ GDB Python Pretty Printing Tutorial?

Question

I am looking for a solid tutorial on creating a custom printer.

There are a few sparse pages on the GDB page however they are far from complete and leave much to the imagination!

For instance, I'd love to be able to create a PrettyPrinter for our custom shared pointer class.

You mean these http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Writing-a-Pretty_002dPrinter.html#Writing-a-Pretty_002dPrinter? — Nikolai Fetissov, Sep 25 '12 at 02:49
yes those leave much up to the imagination of implementing pretty printers for complex structures for instance. — Setheron, Sep 26 '12 at 21:14

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 12 '14 at 11:02

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Check out Tom Tromey's pretty printing tutorials part 1 and part 2. There is also the libstdc++-v6 pretty printer implementation to look at, which is what I used myself as a template when I started out. A somewhat simpler example (as of this writing) is the Boost pretty printer by Rüdiger Sonderfeld.

edited Feb 12 '14 at 11:02

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answered Oct 08 '12 at 03:58

David Holm

prabhuvishnumurthy · Answer 2 · 2014-01-07T08:54:03.073

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This one looks interesting for starters: Python Pretty-Printers from redhat

From this simple tutorial, you can proceed to more advanced ones. Here is a good example:Pretty-printers for libstc++

edited Jan 07 '14 at 08:54

answered Jan 07 '14 at 08:40

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