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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]

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Post by _pmf_ »

kerneldeveloper wrote: post #15

If you want to use a powerful gdb visual interface, you may want to try DDD. However, DDD has an old-fashioned GUI which is very crude. I have tried several visual debugging tools, such as RedHat Insight, DDD, Nemiver and kdbg, but none of them is enough powerful or stable. As far as I know, DDD can't display non-English comments in source code. Now I'm using an awesome GDB init file to construct a convenient debuggi…

Looks interesting. Now, if only I could get combined manual/automatic debugging in CDT.

Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]

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Post by elsjaako »

bennofs wrote: post #3

I 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.

He mentions this in his longer talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9Fkq1e6sg

Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]

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Post by nmg »

pthreads wrote: post #19
kakarot wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are curious as to why you're being downvoted, it's because this comment adds no substance and states something completely obvious. In other words, it was unnecessary. That kind of stuff is for reddit.

No, I am not curious. I know exactly why I am being downvoted. HN'ers sometimes need to lighten up a bit. A little humor among thousands of serious comments (many not useful) is not going to bring down HN and it is incorrect to assume it doesn't add any substance. My comment was not crass, sarcastic, degrading or mean. It was appreciating the commenter's sense of humor in a harmless way.

off-topic.

Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]

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Post by grassfedcode »

Just wanted to mention gdbgui, a new front end to gdb that I developed which is similar to Chrome's debugger, has a gdb terminal which you can fall back to if you want to run gdb commands, and data structure/value plotting and visualizations similar to ddd.

https://github.com/cs01/gdbgui

Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]

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Post by nocman »

kerneldeveloper wrote: post #15

If you want to use a powerful gdb visual interface, you may want to try DDD. However, DDD has an old-fashioned GUI which is very crude. I have tried several visual debugging tools, such as RedHat Insight, DDD, Nemiver and kdbg, but none of them is enough powerful or stable. As far as I know, DDD can't display non-English comments in source code. Now I'm using an awesome GDB init file to construct a convenient debuggi…

Qt Creator is also a fairly decent front-end to gdb ( http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/index.html ).

Re: Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]

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Post by cheez »

grassfedcode wrote: post #26

Just wanted to mention gdbgui, a new front end to gdb that I developed which is similar to Chrome's debugger, has a gdb terminal which you can fall back to if you want to run gdb commands, and data structure/value plotting and visualizations similar to ddd. https://github.com/cs01/gdbgui

This looks great! Did you know that you can also use Chrome's debugger to debug Node? I wonder how difficult it would be to use Chrome's debugger as a front end for gdb.
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