Re: Using STL containers with GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:39:59AM +0200, Vincent Benony wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I use gdb at work for some time now. We currently develop a
> multiplatform software which heavily use STL templates. As a result,
> it's always difficult to me to debug such code.
> 
> 	I tried to find a way to debug more efficiently by using gdb scripts
> that were able to dump std::vector or std::list, but it was always
> painful.
> 
> 	So, yesterday, I decided myself to look at the code of GDB. After a
> quick look, I wrote this patch. I know that it's not very clean, and
> that it makes many assumptions about STL containers, and that it cannot
> be considered as a long term feature for GDB, but, believe me, it's very
> very usefull !

Thanks for doing this.  As for a long term solution, please take a
look at the in-progress Python branch, in Volodya's git repository.
STL support is a big missing feature, but we'd like to add it by
external scripts so that they can be distributed along with the
library, modified without recompiling GDB, and so forth.  I think
Vladimir's got it printing std::vector already.

I really hope we'll have it included in the next release!

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery