Re: How to implement a new Python command that takes values from tty?

[Yifei Zheng <zheng432 at purdue dot edu>]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for pointing me out "parse_and_eval".

I didn't write an pretty printer because it'll be a little ambiguous on 
type matching.

Say the type I wanted to print is "std::vector<Var*>" (which I call a 
pack) where Var is a class and has its own printer. What I wanted to do 
is to dereference all pointers in the vector and pretty-print each one. 
However, some of the "std::vector<Var*>"s are packs while some are not. 
It's at debugger users' discretion. I don't know if that's generally a 
good practice or not. Any better idea?

Yifei

On 04/10/2017 5:19 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Yifei" == Yifei Zheng <zheng432@purdue.edu> writes:
>
> Yifei> I have written a few gdb pretty-printers using Python but this time
> Yifei> I'm trying to write a new command in Python. I want it to take
> Yifei> arguments from gdb and somewhat works like gdb's print. (It's a
> Yifei> special printer for some kind of std::vector).
>
> I'm curious why not write a pretty-printer for this case as well?
>
> Yifei> How can I let gdb evaluates the expression for me so that I don't have
> Yifei> to parse it, and then give me the value instead of the name?
>
> You want gdb.parse_and_eval.
>
> Tom