Question

I have a std::map< std::string, std::string> cont;

I want to see cont[ “some_key” ] in gdb. When I’m trying

p cont[ “some_ket” ]

I’m getting this message: One of the arguments you tried to pass to operator[] could not be converted to what the function wants.

I’m using GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.162.el4rh). Thanks

Answer 1

The latest gdb has python support baked in so one could easily write a function to print out the contents of any stl structure. However you’d have to learn the API and write the script. Luckily gcc 4.5 will ship with the needed python scripts to get gdb to intelligently handle stl data structures.

EDIT: you don’t have to wait for GCC 4.5 (which by the way has already been released), you can just grab the code from SVN.