Eclipse: watch vectors

[Losik]

I've downloaded "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers". It's really great but there is a problem. Since I'm a beginner in programming watch list is very important for me. But while debugging I cannot watch vectors. I mean I want to see their elements but can only see something like on the picture ('pos' is a vector <int>). So is there any easy way to watch vectors in this IDE?

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[dwhitney67]

I believe you need to examine the value(s) that are pointed to by _M_start.

I know how to manually examine individual values using gdb, which is what Eclipse uses, but I have no idea how to set up a watch-list within Eclipse.

After all, _M_start only points to the first element of the internal allocated memory within the vector. I believe this memory is contiguous, so indexing into _M_start is achievable.

For instance, in gdb:


gdb> print *(myvec._M_impl._M_start+2)

will print the third value in the vector. Note, gdb has to know how to print the value; if it is an int, then no sweat. Printing a more complex object may not be doable.