title: Better variable exploring when debugging C++ code with Eclipse/CDT
body: <p>Using Eclipse and CDT to debug C++ code the variable windows is cumbersome and not very informative for types defined in the standard template library or in boost (e.g. shared_ptr).</p>
  <p>Just an example how this may look like for an std::vector:</p>
  <pre><code>bar {…}
      std::_Vector_base&lt;TSample&lt;MyTraits&gt;, std::allocator&lt;TSample&lt;MyTraits&gt; &gt; &gt;   
          _M_impl {…} 
              std::allocator&lt;TSample&lt;MyTraits&gt; &gt;  {…} 
              _M_start    0x00007ffff7fb5010  
              _M_finish   0x00007ffff7fd4410  
              _M_end_of_storage   0x00007ffff7fd5010  
  </code></pre>
  <p>Even if this information about the internals of those types may be useful, in almost any cases I would expect a clearer presentation here, i.e. a list of values for the std::vector. Are there any tools, plugins or other modifications around which can do this?</p>
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  <p>The following solutions does not work for linux. I am using ubuntu 14.04, eclipse, g++, gdb.</p>
  <p>I cant find a package gdb-python and linux does not use mingw</p>