printing stl containers with gdb 7.0

Question

I have installed GDB 7.0 and python per the following instructions. In the same manual, there is a mention of this file stl-views-1.0.3.gdb. What confuses me is where it should be placed in order to enable pretty printing of stl containers. Would someone also explain to me all of this work?

Thanks

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, stl-views are the old way to examine STL containers, and are inferior to the new python support in almost every way.

You should use libstdcxx_printers python pretty-printers instead.