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 sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/…? — Nikolai Fetissov
– Nikolai Fetissov, Commented Sep 25, 2012 at 2:49
yes those leave much up to the imagination of implementing pretty printers for complex structures for instance. — Setheron
– Setheron, Commented Sep 26, 2012 at 21:14

js. · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12 11:02:21Z

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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.

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prabhuvishnumurthy · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-07 08:54:03Z

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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++

answered Jan 7, 2014 at 8:40

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