From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 15:45:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D63611C42 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:45:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07788; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:59:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd007680; Thu Feb 18 16:59:28 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21085; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:45:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902182345.QAA21085@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: gdb sucks - and I need to get around it. help?t To: bright@cygnus.rush.net Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:44:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "perlsta" at Feb 17, 99 03:30:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I actually *prefer* post-morteming core files, and instrumenting > > the code such that I know what's going wrong. > > > > I occasionally use the Microsoft source level debugger (I have to > > admit that getting the contents of variables as a tool-tip, merely > > by leaving the mouse pointer over them for a second is pretty damn > > cool), but like the VMS debugger (and, frequently, gdb), you have > > have you tried 'ddd' there is a statically linked Motif version in > the packages collection, i find ddd VERY nice. I've tried it; it's very nice, for a debugger. But none of my best friends are debuggers. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message