This article is about my experience implementing GDB pretty-printers for the Boost.Unordered containers. You can read my related pair of articles on the Visual Studio natvis implementation here and here. Importantly, in this article I’ll outline the techniques I used so that users can inject their own behaviour into the pretty-printers when the containers are using custom fancy pointer types. A “pretty-printer customization point” is my nickname for the technique I’m using, not an off...
