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Re: How to implement a new Python command that takes values from tty?
- From: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
- To: Yifei Zheng <zheng432 at purdue dot edu>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:19:20 -0600
- Subject: Re: How to implement a new Python command that takes values from tty?
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>>>>> "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