Re: Registering pretty-printers

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:14:32AM -0700, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> Perhaps my proposal for ".gdb_py" section here:
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/archer/2008-q4/msg00162.html
> deserves another look?
> 
> Maybe we don't even need a separate section; just a convention that any
> variable linked into executable, named "gdb_python_.*_source_me" and
> containing ASCII be "python sourced" by GDB?
> 
> The Boost code could declare:
> 
>   const char gdb_python_Boost_Array_source_me[] = "...python code here...";
> 
> in the header, and voila: GDB knows how to print boost::array.
> 
> This could also be easily distributed separately from the library, and
> the user will just have to link in gdb_boost_array_printer.c into his exe.

In my opinion, anything that increases the size of the executable is a
non-starter.  I don't think there's any reliable way to create a
non-allocatable section, and it would have other problems, like
duplicate elimination.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery