[cfe-dev] [analyzer] gdb pretty printers for analyzer specific types

[David Blaikie via cfe-dev]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 12:16 PM Artem Dergachev via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Do i understand correctly that you're basically advocating for a QoL change that'll make lldb commands `p V` and `p V.dump()` equivalent?

This wouldn't apply to lldb, unfortunately - gdb and lldb have
different pretty printer interfaces.

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> On 05.08.2020 10:40, Balázs Benics via cfe-dev wrote:
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> I was thinking about some pretty printers.
> And I'm thinking about SVals and SymExprs specifically.
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> Why do we have no pretty printers for such types?
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> I guess we could reuse their dump() method to acquire string representation.
> The only problem is that that dumps the output to the standard error stream.
>
> What options do I have to get a python pretty-printer using this dump method?
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> Another possible way to implement such a pretty printer is to hardcode the SVal
> kinds in python to do the right thing for each case.
> I'm not really a big fan of this way though.
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> If you have experience with gdb pretty printers then your comments more then welcomed.
>
> Balazs.
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