[PATCH] Make StdVectorPrinter in printers.py compatible with ddd

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> writes:

Jonathan> (Aside, one issue I have with the pretty printers is they
Jonathan> automatically dereference iterators, which is a problem for
Jonathan> past-the-end iterators.)

With CVS GDB (this feature will be in 7.3) and the SVN trunk printers,
you can disable just the iterator printers:

(gdb) disable pretty-printer global libstdc.*;.*iterator.*
13 printers disabled
43 of 56 printers enabled

This is kind of goofy, since the printers are in the "libstdc++-v6"
category, but the disable command uses regexps, and the "++" confuses
Python, so you have to work around it with that first ".*".  Maybe we
can pick a better name.


The iterator printers are a hack to work around GDB's insufficiencies
here.  If somebody wants to try `print *iter' for all the iterators and
either verify that they work or file GDB bugs, that would help us move
toward the day when we can remove these.

Tom