Check out Tom Tromey's pretty printing tutorials part 1 and part 2. There is also the libstdc++-v6 pretty printer implementation to look at, which is The usual way to examine data in your program is with the print command (abbreviated p ) print and many other GDB commands accept an expression and compute its value. .. set print vtbl off Do not pretty print C++ virtual function tables. 10.9 Pretty Printing. gdb provides a mechanism to allow pretty-printing of values using Python code. It greatly simplifies the display of complex objects. Contribute to ruediger/Boost-Pretty-Printer development by creating an account on Here are some useful commands to manage printers from inside gdb: 4 Dec 2008 More concretely, you can register a pretty-printer class by matching the name of a type; any time gdb tries to print a value whose type matchesset print pretty off: Cause GDB to print structures in a compact format, like this: arm: Decode using the algorithm in the C++ Annotated Reference Manual . GDB provides a mechanism to allow pretty-printing of values using Python code. It greatly simplifies the display of complex objects. This mechanism works for 10.9.3 Pretty-Printer Commands. info pretty-printer [ object-regexp [ name-regexp ]]. Print the list of installed pretty-printers. This includes disabled pretty-printers, 1 May 2018 Writing custom GDB pretty-printers to as "user-defined commands"; it supports only defining functions, simple conditionals, and loops);. Guile