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diff --git a/README.pretty-printers b/README.pretty-printers index a2536cad80..2522cb858d 100644 --- a/README.pretty-printers +++ b/README.pretty-printers @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ However, with a pretty printer gdb will output something like this: (gdb) print mutex $1 = pthread_mutex_t = { Type = Normal, - Status = Unlocked, + Status = Not acquired, Robust = No, Shared = No, Protocol = Priority protect, @@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ any changes to the target code must also update the corresponding printers. On the plus side, the printer code itself may serve as a kind of documentation for the target code. +* There's no guarantee that the information the pretty printers provide is +complete, i.e. some details might be left off. For example, the pthread_mutex_t +printers won't report whether a thread is spin-waiting in an attempt to acquire +the mutex. + * Older versions of the gdb Python API have a bug where gdb.RegexpCollectionPrettyPrinter would not be able to get a value's real type if it was typedef'd. This would cause gdb to ignore the pretty printers for |