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From: "Luke Drummond" <luke.drummond@codeplay.com>
To: "David Blaikie" <dblaikie@gmail.com>, "gdb" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Concatenating LazyStrings
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:22:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CFHUCMOS7Q40.3EPMGJ75KGPMY@lukedrummondpc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAENS6Esxo8E7BokefqU1SDEeXzE5=qh6AxaR0NVRu5y93bMv7A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi David

On Fri Nov 5, 2021 at 3:14 AM GMT, David Blaikie via Gdb wrote:
> If I've got a pretty printer (for instance, for llvm's Twine type (
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/6d03227c16ee1950db0e1aa05fbc3201770248eb/llvm/utils/gdb-scripts/prettyprinters.py#L354
> + https://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Twine.html ) that wants to
> pretty
> print a string made up of other strings (from other pretty printers) -
> how
> would I do that?
>
> Specifically, I can't figure out how to correctly concatenate a gdb
> LazyString value with another string. (even if I have to stringify the
> LazyString (making it unlazy) in the process - calling ".value()" on the
> LazyString doesn't seem to be enough - I can't seem to figure out how to
> to-string-ify that resulting gdb Value (it doesn't have a pretty printer
> that I can find - nor a to_string/str/string() function) to then
> concatenate it with another string)


`LazyString.value().format_string()` might be what you want. I've also found the
python builtin `str()` function to be usable in many places.

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Values-From-Inferior.html#Values-From-Inferior

has the documentation if you haven't already seen it.

As an example, here's how I format an enumeration that's made up of bit-flags:

	def fmt_flags_enum(enum_type, val):
			val = int(val)
			return ' | '.join(
					gdb.Value((1 << x) & val).cast(enum_type).format_string()
					for x in range(val.bit_length())
					if (1 << x) & val
			)


The `format_string()` converts the individual enumerators into a string that
python can concatenate with `str.join`.

Hope that helps.

All the Best

Luke


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-05 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-05  3:14 David Blaikie
2021-11-05 12:22 ` Luke Drummond [this message]
2021-11-05 19:55   ` David Blaikie

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