On 2013-06-13 22:18, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The differences between a graphical debugger and gdb are fairly interesting in
that all the basic stuff is just way easier and more pleasant in a graphical
debugger, but gdb has all kinds of advanced stuff that tends to blow graphical
debuggers out of the water in terms of power.
It would probably be best if the two could be properly combined so that all of
stuff that does better graphically is done in a proper graphical debugger, but
you have a command-line interface integrated into it for the more advanced
stuff. You can at least sort of get that with some front-ends to gdb, but their
graphical portion is never as good as it should be IMHO. Visual Studio
definitely wins in that area.
All graphical debuggers I have used (Eclipse, Xcode) are using GDB or
LLDB as a backend. They all provide a command line for entering commands
directly.
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/Jacob Carlborg
