Use Binary Format with Pretty Printers

Hi,

I am trying to use gdb pretty printers to print values to a binary 
format (Google's protocol buffers) to be accessed over the MI interface. 
Is this possible given the way pretty printers are set up? It seems as 
though gdb uses python to print the value which tries to force an output 
encoding (such as utf8), which the binary format I am describing does 
not conform to. Is there a way to pass the bytes straight through 
without forcing an encoding on them? The reason we use the pretty 
printer interface is so that we do not have to maintain downstream 
patches of gdb for our specific use case.

Thanks much,
Alex
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Alex Zahdeh | PE Debugger Development | Cray Inc.
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