Re: GDB variants accepting plugins (to the debugger) ?

> From: Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:13:51 +0100
> 
> I am using GDB-17.1 on Linux/Debian/x86-64 to debug a C++ coded, GPL licensed, inference engine
> 
> 
> Is there any GDB variant accepting plugins to the debugger process
> (these could be definitely useful to display C++ data in a nice way, std::vector or std::map instances come to mind immediately).
> 
> I do know that GDB accept eg Guile or Python scripts.
> But coding manually a Python or Guile function for every important C++ classes of a software is very time consuming

Did you read the node "Auto-loading extensions" in the GDB manual?
GDB installs such an auto-loaded extension for standard C++ classes,
which actually uses printers.py provided by GCC/libstdc++
distribution.  But you can use the same mechanism to provide
extensions for your classes, if needed.