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Re: overloading 'print' command.
- From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
- To: Paweł Sikora <pluto at agmk dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:17:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: overloading 'print' command.
- References: <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