* [Bug default/18916] New: libabigail should provide gdb pretty printers for the types it defines
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From: ooprala at redhat dot com @ 2015-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libabigail
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18916
Bug ID: 18916
Summary: libabigail should provide gdb pretty printers for the
types it defines
Product: libabigail
Version: unspecified
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: default
Assignee: dodji at redhat dot com
Reporter: ooprala at redhat dot com
CC: libabigail at sourceware dot org
Target Milestone: ---
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From: woodard at redhat dot com @ 2015-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libabigail
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18916
--- Comment #2 from Ben Woodard <woodard at redhat dot com> ---
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. Tools
are becoming more and more diverse and often times with complex or large scale
applications purpose written. Furthermore, the diversity of C++ libraries is
increasing and there are more and more libraries which need some sort of pretty
printers.
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 already
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.
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2015-01-01 0:00 ` [Bug default/18916] " woodard at redhat dot com
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From: ooprala at redhat dot com @ 2015-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libabigail
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--- Comment #3 from Ondrej Oprala <ooprala at redhat dot com> ---
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't realize the scope of pretty printing...I like
this a lot.
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From: woodard at redhat dot com @ 2015-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libabigail
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Ben Woodard <woodard at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Ben Woodard <woodard at redhat dot com> ---
Can I say that this is a bigger problem which probably needs a bigger solution.
Right now GDB is the only application that can access the python pretty
printers for types. However, as the range of tools diversifies many more
applications will need pretty printers. So I would argue that what needs to
happen is the python pretty printer framework needs to be abstracted in such a
way that it is not only useful for GDB but for tools in general.
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Ondrej Oprala <ooprala at redhat dot com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |ASSIGNED
Assignee|dodji at redhat dot com |ooprala at redhat dot com
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dodji at redhat dot com changed:
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Severity|normal |enhancement
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