From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 74418 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2015 16:30:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libabigail-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Sender: libabigail-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 74369 invoked by uid 48); 4 Dec 2015 16:30:42 -0000 From: "woodard at redhat dot com" To: libabigail@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug default/18916] libabigail should provide gdb pretty printers for the types it defines Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: libabigail X-Bugzilla-Component: default X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: woodard at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: ASSIGNED X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: ooprala at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2015-q4/txt/msg00193.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D18916 --- Comment #2 from Ben Woodard --- 2:38 ooprala: neb: hey, can you elaborate on 18916? I'm aware that LLDB has= a similar feature to gdb, though I don't know how much it differs 22:38 ooprala: neb: are there any other utils we should be considering?\ Basically this should be a universal capability, in much the same way that there is a C++ demangler like abi::__cxa_demangle that takes the actual C++ symbols and algorithmically converts them into user readable function names= . It isn't just GDB, LLDB, and libabigail that need to pretty print C++ types. T= ools are becoming more and more diverse and often times with complex or large sc= ale applications purpose written. Furthermore, the diversity of C++ libraries is increasing and there are more and more libraries which need some sort of pr= etty printers.=20 So what I'm saying is that we need a tools interface for calling pretty printing which is not tied to GDB and available to all tools writers than C= ++ library writers can write pretty printers for classes that they have which = are not just STL/libstdc+++ classes. Some of the immediate users that I can think of are TotalView but that alre= ady has its own version of pretty printing but because it is special cased there are values are limited and stat and possibly the userspace version of systemtap. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.