GDB pretty printers for data structures used by ISC BIND 9

This directory contains pretty-printers which make easier to read ISC BIND data structures in GDB with Python support.

Installation

Some of the pretty printers need values specified in BIND's header files. You have to run script gen_json_dict.py for each pretty-printer before you start using it.

The script compiles short C program which prints values from the BIND header files. Requirements are GNU cpp and gcc.

Usage

To use pretty-printers, simply source the files into GDB: (gdb) source /path/to/pretty/pp.py

BEWARE: The pretty printers work well if memory is not corrupted. Disable pretty printers if you suspect memory corruption: (gdb) disable pretty-printer

For further information see https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python-API.html