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Re: [RFC v2] Pretty printers for NPTL lock types

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
Cc: Martin Galvan <martin dot galvan at tallertechnologies dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Daniel Gutson <daniel dot gutson at tallertechnologies dot com>, Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:46:42 -0400
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Pretty printers for NPTL lock types
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On 13 Mar 2015 11:27, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Galvan <martin.galvan@tallertechnologies.com> writes:
> 
> Martin>         if mutexType == PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL:
> Martin>             self.output += "* Type: Normal\n"
> 
> Putting newlines into the output seems like it will make the display
> look strange in gdb in some circumstances.
> 
> For example, what happens if the printer triggers during a backtrace?
> Or if the mutex is nested (perhaps several layers deep) inside other
> structures (with "set print pretty on")?

is there a best practices doc ?  i'm not seeing anything in the manual:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Pretty-Printing.html#Pretty-Printing
-mike

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