need a way to disable/limit printing template arguments

need a way to disable/limit printing template arguments

[Kamil Dudka]

Hello,

is there any way to disable or limit expansion of template arguments when 
printing local variables in gdb?

Using 'info local' on the following program with the default configuration 
produces ~300kB output for just one empty local variable:

#include <boost/bimap.hpp>
#include <boost/bimap/bimap.hpp>
#include <boost/bimap/multiset_of.hpp>

int main()
{
    typedef boost::bimaps::multiset_of<int> TMulti;
    typedef boost::bimap<TMulti, TMulti> TBiMap;
    TBiMap biMap;
    __asm__("INT3");
    return 0;
}

I tried the options from info documentation (the Print Settings section) 
to no avail.  Is there any way to suppress the excessive output for this?

Thanks in advance!

Kamil

Re: need a way to disable/limit printing template arguments

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:30:04 +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> is there any way to disable or limit expansion of template arguments when 
> printing local variables in gdb?

There should be primarily written Python Pretty printers for Boost like they
are for libstdc++.  Nobody has done so yet.

Besides that the output could be smaller with various output optimization
like this open Bug (depending on open GCC Bug):
	type-printing should optionally elide defaulted template parameters
	http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15251


Jan