On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 15:01 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> writes:
[...]
> David> How would one go about toggling the enabledness of a prettyprinter? Is
> David> this something that can only be done from python?
>
> You can use "enable pretty-printer" and "disable pretty-printer".
Yes, using .* to match the current executable:
(gdb) disable pretty-printer .* gcc
7 printers disabled
128 of 135 printers enabled
and this does indeed disable/enable the prettyprinters.
> David> I did see references to gdb.parameter("verbose") in gdb.printing
> David> - how would one go about setting this?
>
> "set verbose on"
>
> I think few people use this setting though; probably best to do what
> you're doing now.
>
> David> +# Convert "enum tree_code" (tree.def and tree.h) to a dict:
> David> +tree_code_dict = gdb.types.make_enum_dict(gdb.lookup_type('enum
> tree_code'))
>
> One other subtlety is that this doesn't interact well with all kinds of
> uses of gdb. For example if you have a running gdb, then modify enum
> tree_code and rebuild, then the pretty-printers won't notice this
> change.
>
> I guess it would be nice if we had pre-built caches for this kind of
> this available upstream. But meanwhile, if you care, you can roll your
> own using events to notice when to invalidate data.
As they say, the two fundamental problems in Computer Science are cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
I'm inclined not to care for now: if you've rebuilt gcc with a new enum
tree code, then you should restart gdb.
Is there a precanned event provided by gdb that I can connect to for
when the underlying code has changed and my caches need to be
invalidated?
> David> + def __call__(self, gdbval):
> David> + type_ = gdbval.type.unqualified()
> David> + str_type_ = str(type_)
>
> FWIW I think for RegexpCollectionPrettyPrinter you could write a
> subclass whose __call__ first dereferenced a pointer, then called
> super's __call__. But your approach is just fine.
Thanks
