I am looking for a solid tutorial on creating a custom printer.
There are a few sparse pages on the GDB page however they are far from complete and leave much to the imagination!
For instance, I'd love to be able to create a PrettyPrinter for our custom shared pointer class.
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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 what I used myself as a template when I started out. A somewhat simpler example (as of this writing) is the Boost pretty printer by Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
This one looks interesting for starters: Python Pretty-Printers from redhat
From this simple tutorial, you can proceed to more advanced ones. Here is a good example:Pretty-printers for libstc++
