Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
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Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#2Previous discussion from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101347 (169 comments)
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#3I found rr to be much better for reverse debugging than gdb's record feature. For some reason, hardware watchpoints while reverse-continuing don't work for me when using gdb record but do when using rr.
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#4The TUI in gdb is a great way to get started with gdb.
Instead of writing your own hooks and commands you can visually step through the program and source code ( if you have debug symbols enabled)
I think that more people should know about this feature.
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#5I used to think GDB was a tool with the most broken interface I've ever seen, and which requires arcane commands to do the most trivial of debugging things.
I still do, but I used to too.
That early dig against Windows was particularly funny. There's no way I would pick that over Visual Studio's debugging tools.
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#6radare2 recently added reversible debugging feature too: https://radare.gitbooks.io/radare2book/content/debugger/revd...
Note, that you will need version from git, but anyway, new release of radare2 will be ready in less than a couple weeks.
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#7I used to think GDB was a tool with the most broken interface I've ever seen, and which requires arcane commands to do the most trivial of debugging things. I still do, but I used to too. That early dig against Windows was particularly funny. There's no way I would pick that over Visual Studio's debugging tools.
GDB already felt like that when we had C++ Builder, Visual C++, Zortech C++ visual debuggers on mid-90's versions of Mac and Windows.
The only debuggers that could match them in usability and graphical debugging features were Motif based ones, being sold as a single product.
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#8I used to think GDB was a tool with the most broken interface I've ever seen, and which requires arcane commands to do the most trivial of debugging things. I still do, but I used to too. That early dig against Windows was particularly funny. There's no way I would pick that over Visual Studio's debugging tools.
There are convenient graphical frontends for GDB. DDD for instance can create plots, diagrams, etc.
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#9WinGDB exists and allows remote debugging in Visual Studio to remote machines using gdbserver. Used that in my previous job and was very convenient.
Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
#10I used to think GDB was a tool with the most broken interface I've ever seen, and which requires arcane commands to do the most trivial of debugging things. I still do, but I used to too. That early dig against Windows was particularly funny. There's no way I would pick that over Visual Studio's debugging tools.
For what it's worth, VSCode and Visual Studio now have GDB integrations through its machine interface (MI). I use the VSCode one (part of the c/c++ extension) on a regular basis and while lacking functionality, it's very easy to use.