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How to determine the cause of GDB pretty printing issues?

I'm trying to determine why GDB on my system does not provide any pretty printing for C++ standard library types.

Command info pretty-printer yields some bogus output:

global pretty-printers:
  builtin
    mpx_bound128
Python Exception <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'> 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 48-53: ordinal not in range(128): 
Error occurred in Python: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 48-53: ordinal not in range(128)

And I can't seem to find the offending gdbinit script.

Solution

  • I was able to overcome the issue by altering the default Python encoding in .gdbinit script as follows:

    python
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
end