Problems with gdb pretty-printers

[Niko Sams]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 22:10, Victor Vicente de Carvalho
<victor.v.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/13 Niko Sams <niko.sams at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 20:20, Victor Vicente de Carvalho
>> <victor.v.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 2010/5/13 Niko Sams <niko.sams at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> > Printing an Any on gdb witch contains strings returns a nicely
>> >> > formated
>> >> > output. On KDevelop, it's show as it wasn't recognized.
>> >> Is the pretty printer loaded correctly?
>> >> is the to_string method called at all? (You can test using print
>> >> statements in python
>> >> and watching kdevelop console output.
>> >>
>> > Yes, as I have other printers on the same module and they work fine, and
>> > for
>> > this printer basic structures like ints and booleans are converted
>> > right.
>> > Also on gdb terminal the same module prints the correct output. I'm
>> > making
>> > the import from my ~/.gdbinit.
>> >
>> To tackle this issue it would be most helpful to get a simplified test
>> case that consists of:
>> - you debugee (including your custom class) - simplified to only necessary
>> code
>> - the pretty printer (simplified as well)
>> - kdevelop console output when debugging
>>
>
> Ok, I've attached a sample test, the simplified printer and my .gdbinit.
thanks!

>>
>> out of that a simplified debug session using gdb cli and MI commands
>> can be created
>> that should show the same symptom (the relevant MI commands can be
>> found in the kdevelop
>> console output).
You can try to provide this as well - else I'll try tomorrow.

Niko