debugging on linux (was Re: Novell Survey)

--- Micah DesJardins <micahdj@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's to editing source in VIM and keeping five to
> ten terminals open
> at any given time!
> *solidarity fist pump!*
>
> It's hard for me to comment on current MS debugger
> technology because
> the last time I used it, I had an extra Hercules
> Graphics Adapter in
> my PC to display the debugging info. (For you
> youngsters, that means
> I'm old, for you oldsters, I'm only 31 but I was a
> deeply geeky
> child.) , but then again, I bet most VS users
> complaining about *nix
> debugging haven't worked with recent versions of
> dbx, mdb and dtrace.
> Since VS is neither free nor open source, I feel
> inclined to bring up
> both TotalView and Rational PurifyPlus. I still
> think gdb is decent,
> and Insight would probably make it more palatable to
> people who are
> looking for a GUI type debugger. I think a lot of
> it depends on what
> your focus is debug-wise, your preferences regarding
> GUI vs. CLI
> tools, your costs and/or F/OSS needs, and your
> comfort level with any
> of the tools in question.
>
> For the record, I've yet to find an IDE that I feel
> "more productive"
> in than I do with vim and CLI tools but I still hold
> hope that some
> day I'll find one.
>

Ok, I'm probably more gui ide oriented then you;
mostly because of keyboard shortcuts (which there are
more in gui on windows than the command line).

Given this, I'm highly interested in the debugging
tools you've mentioned and what sort of debugging they
can do. Are they language/compiler specific? Can you
step through lines of code? Can you get the current
value of variables? Run code in an 'immediate window'
with out altering code in your app?


Shin zen ni rei
-j
Registered Linux user number 403109
http://counter.li.org/



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