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[Arnaud Charlet]

> "print ii._M_start[0]" gives me the first integer, not much better. And 
> what about map, sets, multimaps, map to lists, map to maps to lists of 
> sets and other data structures you sometimes can find use for, are they 
> totally opaque in practice? Or have I missed something important?

The first thing to find out is whether gdb is able to display the actual
contents in some way (even if it is using a complex syntax): because if
gdb is not able to display the contents at all (e.g. insufficient
debug info), then GVD won't be able to do much.

A usual approach to display complex data structures is to define 'print'
functions in your executable, and call them from the debugger.

In GVD, you could then do e.g. graph display `call print_stl (foo)`

> GDB may be the best place to implement this. If so, how would the 
> plug-ins interact with GVD?

I would indeed probably put more support for these in GDB itself, since it
would probably then come for free in GVD.

Arno