[Boost-users] maybe ot: debugger expression evaluators

Subject: [Boost-users] maybe ot: debugger expression evaluators
From: Noah Roberts (roberts.noah_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-11 12:15:54

Does anyone know of any set of VS evaluators ( 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8fwk67y3(VS.80).aspx ) that 
would make debugging code that uses some of the more internally complex 
boost constructs a bit easier?  Ones I can think of that would make life 
easier:

whatever is returned by bind
smart pointers (not so bad right now actually)
boost::function

others?

For instance, with the bind it would be nice to see simply the address 
of the function and an array of the arguments...with some obviously 
being displayed as "placeholder".

The boost::function one could maybe just show the function object it stores.

Currently, to get to this information you have to weed through quite a 
few levels of abstraction.  Not saying this is bad, it's obviously 
necessary, but it can make debugging through these objects a bit of a 
hassle.