The new GDB-Python scripting API looks quite powerful and should be very useful. However writing a useful script to iterate through the fields in a struct of C or C++ is not trivial. Does any one know some solid samples that does exactly that?

Thanks in advance.


Update the final sample: Replace the _print_fields() in early sample.

    if l.type.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_STRUCT:
        print "Found a struct  %s " % n
        #self._print_fields(n, t)
        self._print_deep_items(n, t, l)
    else:
        print "Found no struct"

def _print_deep_items (self, n_, type_, instance_):
    for fld in type_.fields():
        fn = fld.name
        ft = fld.type
        fv = instance_[fn]
        if fv.type.code == gdb.TYPE_CODE_STRUCT:
            print "  Found a sub struct  %s " % fn
            self._print_deep_items(fn, ft, fv)
        else:
            print "    Field %s " % fn, " type %s " % ft.tag, " value %s " % fv

And the output:

  variable s1   type S1
Found a struct  s1
    Field v1   type None   value 0
    Field v2   type None   value 0
  Found a sub struct  v3
    Field w3   type None   value 0

Update with the first sample: Got the following sample code working. This is not the optimal as it does a look-up on every field after composing the string field name. abarnert is showing a promising and elegant approach, the working code is updated in the above final update section.

import gdb
class PrintGList(gdb.Command):
    """print fields of a struct: wzd struct_object

Iterate through the fields of a struct, and display
a human-readable form of the objects."""
    def __init__(self):
        gdb.Command.__init__(self, "wzd", gdb.COMMAND_DATA, gdb.COMPLETE_SYMBOL, True)

    def invoke(self, arg, from_tty):

        arg_list = gdb.string_to_argv(arg)
        if le
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