# Work around awkwardness in gdb's python printers: # 1. In src/main-gdb-head.py, define the printer mechanism. # 2. In src/*/*.py, define all the printer classes. # 3. In src/main-gdb-tail.py, reflect to actually add the printers. # gdb sticks everything in one scope. # This lets us enumerate what *we* added. initial_globals = {id(v):v for v in globals().values()} import re # copied from gdb/types.py for compatibility with old gdb def get_basic_type(type_): """Return the "basic" type of a type. Arguments: type_: The type to reduce to its basic type. Returns: type_ with const/volatile is stripped away, and typedefs/references converted to the underlying type. """ while (type_.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_REF or type_.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_TYPEDEF): if type_.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_REF: type_ = type_.target() else: type_ = type_.strip_typedefs() return type_.unqualified() def finish(): global finish, initial_globals, FastPrinters final_globals = {id(v):v for v in globals().values()} diff = final_globals.keys() - initial_globals.keys() \ - {'finish', 'initial_globals', 'FastPrinters'} fp = FastPrinters() # After this, don't access any more globals in this function. del finish, initial_globals, FastPrinters for i in diff: v = final_globals[i] if hasattr(v, 'children') or hasattr(v, 'to_string'): fp.add_printer(v) gdb.current_objfile().pretty_printers.append(fp) print('Added %d custom printers for %s' % (len(fp.printers), gdb.current_objfile().filename)) class FastPrinters(object): ''' printer dispatch the way gdb *should* have done it ''' __slots__ = ('name', 'enabled', 'printers') def __init__(self): self.name = 'tmwa' self.enabled = True self.printers = {} def add_printer(self, cls): assert hasattr(cls, 'enabled') # TODO: check if the class name exists # this is really hard since templates are involved self.printers[cls.name] = cls @property def subprinters(self): return list(self.printers.values()) def strip_templates(self, name, __pattern=re.compile('<[^<>]*>')): # TODO what about '<' and '>' as non-type template parameters? changed = 1 while changed: name, changed = __pattern.subn('', name) return name def __call__(self, value): stype = get_basic_type(value.type).tag #dtype = get_basic_type(value.dynamic_type).tag if stype is None: return stype = self.strip_templates(stype) p = self.printers.get(stype) if p is not None and p.enabled: return p(value) return None