Why Type Transformations
Modern programming languages allow you to use abstractions such as structures, class, and STL data types such as lists, maps, multimaps, sets, multisets, and vectors to model the data that your program uses. For example, the STL (Standard Template Library) allows you to create vectors of the data contained within a class. These abstractions simplify the way in which you think of and manipulate program’s data. These abstractions can also complicate the way in which you debug your program because it may be nearly impossible or very inconvenient to examine your program’s data.
NOTE: By default, TotalView transforms STL strings, vectors, lists, maps, multimaps, sets, and multisets. The unordered STL types, unordered_map, unordered_multimap, unordered_set and unordered_multiset, are transformed for recent g++ compilers.
For a discussion and screenshots of type transformations, see
C++ STL Type Transformations.
