From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: "Paweł Sikora" <pluto@agmk.net>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: overloading 'print' command.
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 23:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ac60eac0905141617g1db278e5l906eef8f5b899ed4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <QXEMlZRc.1242301597.2053650.pluto@agmk.net>
2009/5/14 Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>:
> I'd like to ask about overloading gdb's 'print' command.
> e.g. I've defined a macro 'ps' for printing std::string:
>
> define ps
> p $arg0.c_str()
> end
>
> Now, I'd like to avoid calling 'ps' and just use the 'p' command
> in top-macros for printing more complex data structures.
> Is it possible in gdb to register some hooks for type-based
> printing?
Support for doing *exactly* this is coming to mainline GDB, but you can
get it now from the archer-tromey-python branch:
http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/PythonGdb
It is significantly more powerful than what you can do with simple 'define'.
Cheers,
--
Paul Pluzhnikov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-14 11:46 Paweł Sikora
2009-05-14 23:17 ` Paul Pluzhnikov [this message]
2009-05-15 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-15 14:07 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-05-15 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-15 15:53 ` Joel Brobecker
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