From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13238 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2010 15:34:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 13228 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jan 2010 15:34:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:34:15 +0000 Received: from int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.18]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o05FYETx013941 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:34:14 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o05FYD2G006446; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:34:13 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o05FYCFc019719; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:34:12 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 222103781A0; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:34:12 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: "Elmenthaler\, Jens" Cc: Subject: Re: Python pretty printers and dynamic cast References: <58596C4646708B4BB990C44839973330017EFAE8@usplmvpbe001.ent.rt.verigy.net> Reply-To: Tom Tromey Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:34:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <58596C4646708B4BB990C44839973330017EFAE8@usplmvpbe001.ent.rt.verigy.net> (Jens Elmenthaler's message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:14:26 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jens" == Elmenthaler, Jens writes: Tom> There is nothing built-in yet. We've had a few requests for this, Tom> though, and there was a patch posted to the archer list. If you give it Tom> a try, let us know how it turns out. [...] Jens> So, my vote as a user looks something like this: Jens> Prio 1: commit this patch for the rtti_type method (I applied it Jens> to the current gdb 7.0 sources and was happy with it). ] I'm hoping we'll merge a bunch of python stuff "soon". I'll make sure this is on our list. Jens> Prio 2: also add the C++ style casts to improve gdb command line Jens> experience for C++. FWIW we have a patch to add these casts on the expr-cumulative branch. I will look into merging that. Jens> Prio 3: provide the C++ style casts in the Python API to make Jens> pretty printers like the one described above clean. Could you file a feature request for this in bugzilla? Tom