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Watching strings in the watch window [message #668811]

Sat, 07 May 2011 19:19

David Sackstein

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Registered: March 2011

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The description says it all ...
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Re: Watching strings in the watch window [message #669422 is a reply to message #668811]

Tue, 10 May 2011 09:52

Axel Mueller

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char* is always shown as text in the detail pane (lower pane in the Variables view). This works in the Debug hover (hover with the mouse cursor over the variable during debug), too. To show std::string you need a recent gdb with Python support (it was introduced in gdb 7) and install the pretty printers for STL code.
See http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/STLSupport

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