From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 21 10: 0:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEBF37B424; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.255.96.34]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000821170053.KYWT16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:00:53 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01308; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:00:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:00:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Smithurst Cc: j mckitrick , The Clark Family , David Kelly , narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000821180045.B258@parish> References: <200008151718.e7FHIbb13082@mail.hiwaay.net> <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000821160518.B20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000821160518.B20036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@freebsd.org on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:05:18PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:05:18PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > j mckitrick wrote: > > > i just read a comment that *nix doesn't even have good, intuitive debugger. > > all there really are are wrappers for ancient command line utils. > > So you're going back to an operating system which is basically just a > GUI sitting on top of that ancient command line operating system, DOS? > > Anyway, GDB works fine for me. If you want a graphical version, writing > a front-end for that seems like the most sensible thing to do. Or eminently more sensible is to install ddd(1) from, you guessed it, the mighty ports collection. Yes, it's a front end to gdb, but I found it every bit as good (and easy to use) as the VC++ one I have to use at work. Oh, and BTW, I'm talking about debugging a large monolithic CAD application; 20MB binary and several thousand source files. > GDB > probably does most things you could want from a debugger, a front-end > just makes that eas(y|ier), and I imagine writing a debugger from > scratch would be pretty complicated. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message