Antoine Pitrou created ARROW-12735:
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Summary: [C++][Dev] Write gdb plugin
Key: ARROW-12735
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12735
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Wish
Components: C++, Developer Tools
Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
One common issue when using gdb with Arrow is that it's non-trivial to explore
and display Arrow data and metadata using built-in gdb functionality. One
usually needs lots of hand typing of expressions.
One way to alleviate this would be to write a gdb plugin giving a higher-level
view of Arrow C++ objects. This should be possible using the gdb Python API
(though not trivial):
https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Python.html#Python
A sophisticated example of this is the gdb plugin for Python itself:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/gdb/libpython.py
Related:
https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/gdbundle-plugin-manager
https://github.com/memfault/gdbundle
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