On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:57, Erez Doron wrote:
> hi
>
> i am looking for a good debugger for developing C on linux.
> Preferably an IDE but a good standalone  debugger will do.

A debugger and IDE are very different things, don't confuse the two.
THE C debugger for Linux is of course, the GNU symbolic debugger GDB.

There's a multitude of graphics frontends and IDEs that include support for it 
and one integrated debugger that includes it (which can really be thought of 
of a GUI version of GDB rather then a frontend or IDE) - Insight.

> I tried DDD and UPS but they are not easy to handle.

So is programming in C. But I agree that DDD's user interface really is... 
imaginative :-)

> I tried using  eclipse but it seems only to support java.

Bzzt! wrong. Eclipse is a general purpose IDE that happens to be written and 
have extensive support for JAVA, but is not limited only to JAVA. I don't 
know how good it is in that capacity, though.

> I just miss Borland's old dos IDE BorlandC which was the best of all
> times IMHO.

Debugging is something that happens in one's head, not a debugger (or IDE). 
But try Emacs gdb-mode in a console and you'll get pretty much the same user 
experience with the added value of having an on board psychoanalyst in your 
IDE which every programmer needs once in a while during debugging sessions. 
It beats the hell out of ramming your head into the walls... :-)

Gilad

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Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"I am Jack's Overwritten Stack Pointer"
        -- Hackers Club, the movie


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