[webkit-dev] Easing printf based debugging in WebKit with an helper.

[Oliver Buchtala]

On 19.07.2012 20:26, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Oliver Buchtala <oliver.buchtala at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am probably one of those people who much dislike printf-debugging.
>> What is your problem with using a debugger?
>>
>> Maybe because the displayed information is not appropriate?
>> E.g., you would like
>>      someString.utf8().data()
>> instead of
>>      someString
>>
>> FWIW, there is a gdb python API for changing the behavior... so called pretty printers.
>> It is not too difficult to write such pretty-printers.
>>
>> Maybe providing a set of useful pretty-printers is a better approach than providing a set of debug functions?
> I would love to see a set of useful pretty printers that we could share. Do you have any we could use as a starting point?
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
I have written some for other projects... not yet for webkit.

Brady noted that there are some of them around?
I could provide some pretty-printers, if necessary...

Regards,
Oliver