I'm trying to debug some STL based C++ code in gdb. The code has something like

int myfunc()
{
   std::map<int,int> m;
   ...
}

Now in gdb, inside myfunc using "print m" gives something very ugly. What I've seen recommended is compiling something like

void printmap( std::map<int,int> m )
{
   for( std::map<int,int>::iterator it = ... )
   {
      printf("%d : %d", it->first, it->second );
   }
}

Then in gdb doing

(gdb) call printmap( m )

This seems like a good way to handle the issue... but can I put printmap into a seperate object file (or even dynamic library) that I then load into gdb at runtime rather than compiling it into my binary - as recompiling the binary every time I want to look at another STL variable is not fun .. while compiling and loading a single .o file for the print routine may be acceptable.