How to print `std::array` contents in gdb?

Question

I am not well familiar with gdb, and couldn't figure how to look for this scenario in gdb manual.

I am trying to print contents of std::array in gdb. Below is the usecase I am trying to debug in gdb.

template<unsigned int N>
double dotprod(const std::array<double, N> &v1, const std::array<double, N> &v2)
{
     ...
}

While inside this function I tried to print contents of p v1 . It prints (const mosp::Point<2u> *) 0x7fffffffc150 . How can I print the contents of v1 ?

Answer 1

A trick that I've been using with gdb is defining my own printing functions.

For example:

void print_int_array(array<int> *a) {
    for (auto it = a->begin(); it != a->end(); ++it)
        cout << *it << endl;
}

Then from gdb prompt you can run:

p print_int_array(&array_variable_name)

The problem is that this requires you to define several functions (note: gdb might have better template support and you can use templates with explicit instantiation, but i'm conservative)

Answer 2

gdb 7.6 no this problem.

[root@localhost ~]# gdb ./a.out 
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Reading symbols from /root/a.out...done.
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x80485b9: file a.cpp, line 11. 
(gdb) r
Starting program: /root/a.out 

Breakpoint 1, main () at a.cpp:11
11              std::array<double, 5> a = {0, 1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4};
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.17-4.fc19.i686 libgcc-
4.8.1-1.fc19.i686 libstdc++-4.8.1-1.fc19.i686
(gdb) n
12              std::array<double, 5> b = {5.5, 6.6, 7.7, 8.8, 9.9};
(gdb) 
13              dotprod(a, b); 
(gdb) s
dotprod<5u> (v1=..., v2=...) at a.cpp:7
7               return 0;
(gdb) p v1
$1 = (const std::array<double, 5u> &) @0xbffff640: {_M_elems = {0, 1.1000000000000001, 2.2000000000000002, 
    3.2999999999999998, 4.4000000000000004}}
(gdb)