[Opalvoip-user] Python GDB scripting

[Stefano S. <ssa...@re...>]

On date Friday 2010-04-23 11:25:56 +0200, Stefano Sabatini phoned this:
> On Friday 2010-04-23 14:16:46 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   No offense taken.
> > 
> > A quick review of the literature reports "Archer" whose goal is to improve 
> > gdb. For a list of their goals, 
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/archer/2008-q3/msg00001.html
> > 
> > The above list could be viewed as a report of the faults in gdb.
> > Clearly, gdb is not perfect, and so Robert has some good reasons for 
> > preferring MSVC.
> > 
> > ======
> > 
> > The autoexp.dat file you have for windows does make the msvc experience 
> > much easier.
> > Is there someone who can provide a script for use in gdb - that will 
> > simplify the reporting on variables? Such scripts would go into the SVN - 
> > along with instructions to benefit all.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help/tips here.
> 
> Absolutely, if I'll come up with something worthwhile that will be
> posted here, no doubt!!

While I'm still working my way through the issue, I'm posting this
humble text file (which will eventually become a blog article) in the
hope that it will be useful and maybe of inspiration to someone.

Implementing full pretty-printing support for libpt shouldn't be too
hard, and I'll try do it myself if I'll find the time.

[...]

Regards.