> > However, _M_impl, _M_start etc are gcc internals and it might be risky for > > Emacs to rely on them. Can anyone say how likely these internals are to > > change? I'm not asking for a guarantee. It would be helpful just to know > > when they last changed as an indication of how volatile this code might be.
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:00:17PM +0100, Paolo Carlini wrote: > I would say they are pretty stable, because we have a stable ABI which > we are not going to break until C++0x: that means we can only implement > limited span changes, we cannot add data members, for example neither > change the memory layout of the classes. Yes, it would certainly make sense to teach gdb (not just the Emacs interface of gdb) to recognize STL containers and give a better display. The members of std::vector have been stable since gcc-3.0, I'm pretty sure (certainly since 3.2). But that would be more appropriate to discuss on the gdb list.
