Re: [python][rfc] Attempt to print the base class if a there is noPython pretty-printer for a derived class.

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > > >             
>
> Pedro> Does this do sensible things if class Y has some
> Pedro> fields that mask the Base class's ones, when you only have a
> Pedro> pretty printer for Base?
>
> Yeah... it pretty-prints Base, then goes on to print the subclass
> fields as usual (perhaps pretty-printing them as well).
>
> Phil, could you post the before- and after- results of your example?
> I think that would clear things up.
>   
Here (attached) is a file I was using today to test some scenarios. They 
do not directly address Pedro's questions (I think your explanation 
does). But they do address on of Paul's.

[pmuldoon@localhost gdb]$ ./gdb ~/derived

(pg-gdb) b 45
Reading in symbols for /home/pmuldoon/derived.cpp...
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400b40: file /home/pmuldoon/derived.cpp, line 45.
(pg-gdb) python import gdb.libstdcxx.v6.printers
(pg-gdb) r

Breakpoint 1, main () at /home/pmuldoon/derived.cpp:45
45 return 0;

(pg-gdb) info locals

map = std::map with 1 elements = {
[0x40363d "one"] = 1
}
uomap = std::tr1::unordered_map with 1 elements = {
[21] = 0x403645 "twenty one"
}
nest = {
<Z> = std::map with 1 elements = {
[0x403650 "twenty-two"] = 22
},
members of X:
map = std::tr1::unordered_map with 1 elements = {
[23] = 0x403638 "test"
},
i = 0
}
base = std::map with 1 elements = {
[0x403641 "two"] = 2
}

#include <map>
#include <tr1/unordered_map>

class Y : public std::tr1::unordered_map<int, char *>
{
public:
  Y()
  {
  }
};

class Z : public std::map<const char *, int>
{
public:
  Z()
  {
  }
};


class X : public Z
{
public:

  Y map;
  int i;
  X ()
  {
    i=0;
    map[23] = "test";
  }
};

int main()
{
  Z map;
  Y uomap;
  X nest;    
  std::map<const char *, int> base;

  map["one"] = 1;
  base["two"] = 2;
  uomap[21] = "twenty one";
  nest["twenty-two"] = 22;
  return 0;
}