[jira] [Updated] (ARROW-12735) [C++][Dev] Write gdb plugin

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> [C++][Dev] Write gdb plugin
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>                 Key: ARROW-12735
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12735
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: C++, Developer Tools
>            Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
>            Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> One common issue when using gdb with Arrow is that it's non-trivial to explore and display Arrow data and metadata using built-in gdb functionality. One usually needs lots of hand typing of expressions.
> One way to alleviate this would be to write a gdb plugin giving a higher-level view of Arrow C++ objects. This should be possible using the gdb Python API (though not trivial):
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Python.html#Python
> A simple example:
> https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/third_party/gdb_pretty_printer
> A sophisticated example of this is the gdb plugin for Python itself:
> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/gdb/libpython.py
> Related:
> https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/gdbundle-plugin-manager
> https://github.com/memfault/gdbundle



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