Read about gdb STL support here
Check-out the latest Python libstdc++ printers to a place on your machine.
cd ~/Downloads svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk/libstdc++-v3/python sudo mkdir /opt/gdb_printers sudo mv python /opt/gdb_printers/ sudo chown -Rv root:root /opt/gdb_printers/ ll /opt/gdb_printers/python cd ~ cat > .gdbinit << EOF python import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/opt/gdb_printers/python') from libstdcxx.v6.printers import register_libstdcxx_printers register_libstdcxx_printers (None) end EOF
Use command print in gdb console.