Command flags for debugging template code

Dima Sorkin dima.sorkin@gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 19:06:00 GMT 2007


On 3/27/07, John Love-Jensen wrote:
> I now realize I haven't needed to do this trick in many years.  So either
> the debuggers are better on the platforms I'm using and can sensically step
> into inline functions, or I'm making less boo-boos.

Still, debugging templates is the main problem for me in the gnu tools for c++.
Especially when there are instantiations with multiple types, in the
same program.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2006-06/msg00132.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2006-06/msg00128.html

But your trick does help to stop inside some template function,
regardless of the type it was instantiated for.

Thanks, regards,
 Dima.



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