Linux IDE with proper support for STL debugging

Question

I am looking for a Linux IDE with support for STL debugging.

the problem is that with Eclipse CDT, if I inspect the vector after the push_back:

int main() {
 vector<string> v;
 v.push_back("blah");
 return 0;
}

I get something hostile like

{<std::_Vector_base<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >> = {_M_impl = {<std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >> = {<__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >> = {<No data fields>}, <No data fields>}, _M_start = 0x1fee040, _M_finish = 0x1fee048, _M_end_of_storage = 0x1fee048}}, <No data fields>}

instead of something like

vector["blah"]

or something similar. is there an alternative IDE/Debugger for linux that provides better STL support?

Answer 1

QtCreator has debugger dumpers for the Qt containers, some of the STL containers and a bunch of the Qt classes. It's also more responsive than Eclipse.

See Qt Creator debugger dumpers.

Answer 2

This has got nothing to do with the IDE per se, but this is a drawback of the debugger you are using. IDEs, especially on Linux, are just front-ends for debuggers. I suppose you are using GDB, and it won't get any better than this. BTW, while developing on Linux, I use carefully placed print statements instead of a debugger and most of the time I find it better than using a debugger!

Answer 3

Eclipse use gdb and you can script gdb so it print different types the way you want. I use my own scripts for my own types but there is many available scripts for the stl.

Now the tricky part will be to make this work smoothly is Eclipse, but it can be a solution.