Pretty Printing (Debugging with GDB) 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 …

Feb 15, 2021 · I am trying to enable pretty printing for C++ in Visual Studio Code using MinGW GDB python debugger. I followed steps described here under the "This is for MinGW users with Eclipse …

Nov 27, 2025 · The problem is gdb doesn't load the pretty printer for C++ stdcxx automatically. So when I use Seer to debug code with std::string and std::vector, they appear as the full ugly templated …

Jul 27, 2024 · Here the important part is the enable-pretty-printing setupCommand. With this, if you have configured your gdb config to source your pretty printer vs-code will use that to show variables.

10.10 Pretty Printing 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 both MI and the CLI.

Then you can determine the name and source file location of the variable where it points, using `p/a pointer'. This interprets the address in symbolic form. For example, here GDB shows that a variable …

In this tutorial, Software Architect Mark Williamson follows on from our previous tutorial on advanced pretty-printers for GDB, showing how to configure and control the behaviour of your printers. Read …

Pretty-Printer Commands (Debugging with GDB) info pretty-printer [object-regexp [name-regexp]] Print the list of installed pretty-printers. This includes disabled pretty-printers, which are marked as such. …