Writing a Pretty-Printer (Debugging with GDB)We recommend that you put your core pretty-printers into a Python package. If your pretty-printers are for use with a library, we further recommend embedding …

Jan 22, 2025 · 10.2. Pretty Printing and GDB # Pretty-printing in GDB refers to the customisation of the output format for complex data structures during debugging sessions. By default, GDB may display …

Make debugging easier with pretty-printers in GDB. You create a basic printer in minutes. Use time to your advantage.

Jul 27, 2024 · Since a pretty printer determines what you see as the value of a variable when you are debugging if you want to change what you see then you can create your own pretty printer. Despite …

If a pretty-printer can handle multiple data types, then its subprinters are the printers for the individual data types. The gdb.printing module provides a formal way of solving these problems (see gdb.printing).

If the printer's to_string method returns a Python string of some kind, then gdb will call its internal language-specific string-printing function to format the string. For the CLI this means adding …

Pretty Printing (Debugging with GDB)GDB provides a mechanism to allow pretty-printing of values using Python code. It greatly simplifies the display of complex objects. This mechanism works for both MI …

To address this, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 version of GDB is now compatible with Python pretty-printers. This allows the retrieval of more meaningful debugging data by leaving the introspection, …