[Development] Gdb pretty printers for Qt 5

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Jan 7 20:35:15 CET 2013


On domingo, 6 de janeiro de 2013 21.49.46, Niko Sams wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> years ago I started working on gdb pretty printers for Qt 4 that allow
> printing eg. QString or QList values. Similar to what QtCreator does
> but with one big difference: it also works with plain gdb.
> Pretty printers are implemented in python and can be shipped with the
> library they are built for. Ubuntu does that for libstdc++ [1]
> 
> The merge request [2] I created back then got rejected - it now gets
> shiped with KDevelop and people also use it for cli - which requires
> not so strait forward manual set up.
> 
> I'd like to try again to get this into Qt 5 - where it imho belongs.
> Would such a patch get accepted?

Yes, I'd say so. We can put it somewhere in qtbase, like in util/gdb.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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