Re: [Boost-users] Support of Pretty print

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Support of Pretty print
From: Mario Chacon (the.masch_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-26 12:25:01

Sorry, yes I was referring the pretty print that Volodya said.
So Is it possible to start with some libraries???

Salu2...
masch...

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Vladimir Prus
<vladimir_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Zachary Turner wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Mario Chacon<the.masch_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >> eheh... I do not know enough to write pretty prints, it's will be help
> if
> >> there are some example that other can continue, Do you know if exist
> some
> >> pretty print boost exampless?
> >>
> >
> >
> > It's nothing specific to boost, you just have to learn the GDB macro
> > language.  One of the difficulties in writing GDB pretty prints is
> > that, unlike with Visual Studio debug visualizers, GDB pretty printing
> > does not happen "automatically".  You have to write a special command
> > for every single type you want to pretty print.   "printboostvariant",
> > "printboostany", "printboostfspath", etc.  It's a little bit annoying
> > for sure.  You can get around this even by writing a GDB plugin.
>
> I guess much of confusion has resulted from the fact that Mario did not
> say what exactly he is talking about. The GDB pretty-printers he mention
> have nothing to do with that inadequate-for-anything GDB macro language.
> These are Python pretty-printers. See:
>
>        http://tromey.com/blog/?p=524
>
> These are also documented in the development version of the GDB.
>
> > If you want to write a GDB plugin, there is not as much available
> > info, but you can refer to this page:
> >
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-05/msg00671.html
> >
> > in which someone submitted a plugin for GDB to automatically display
> > correctly STL types just by using the normal "print" statement.
>
> That specific patch did not went further, since Python support was already
> in development.
>
> - Volodya
>
>
>
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