overloading 'print' command.

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

2009/5/14 Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>:

> I'd like to ask about overloading gdb's 'print' command.
> e.g. I've defined a macro 'ps' for printing std::string:
>
> define ps
> p $arg0.c_str()
> end
>
> Now, I'd like to avoid calling 'ps' and just use the 'p' command
> in top-macros for printing more complex data structures.
> Is it possible in gdb to register some hooks for type-based
> printing?

Support for doing *exactly* this is coming to mainline GDB, but you can
get it now from the archer-tromey-python branch:
  http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/PythonGdb

It is significantly more powerful than what you can do with simple 'define'.

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov