Gotcha. You're asking about the kinds of things in the toolbox of an
old school UNIX programmer.

That's pretty much the list I gave, so it's all good!

~Ryan

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jeremy Leonard<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to find tools that I can use (from the command line) that
> would help me to debug and/or learn more about how the programs I
> write in C/C++ work, or things like the make system.  If these tools
> have already been mentioned, or don't exist then that's ok. I was just
> curious about what tools (if any) are available. I hope this helps
> clarify what I was trying to ask.  Thank's
>
> On Jun 17, 8:48 am, Ryan Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think the confusion is that you're looking for something other than
>> GCC, which is really all you need.
>>
>> You mentioned GDB, but I would guess that a large number of people
>> don't even use it (myself included).
>>
>> Other tools I've used in the past that may be what you're looking for:
>> valgrind
>> cscope
>> ctags
>> splint
>> awk/sed/grep
>> vim/emacs
>> doxygen
>> make/automake/autoconf
>> any common scripting language (perl, sh, python, etc.)
>>
>> I'm not sure what kinds of tools you're thinking of, but I'm guessing
>> that they either don't exist, or you haven't stumbled upon the magic
>> words to describe them yet.
>>
>> ~Ryan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Jeremy Leonard<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Not an ide like eclipse, anjunta, or kdevelop. As I mentioned in my
>> > original post, I am looking for suggestions on programming tools
>> > available from the command line (other the gcc/g++ or gdb as I already
>> > have a good foundation for how to use these.)
>>
>> > On Jun 17, 2:33 am, Umarzuki Mochlis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> 2009/6/17 Jeremy Leonard <[email protected]>
>>
>> >> > Thanks for the link, but not what I had in mind. Using g++ to compile
>> >> > programs is the part that I already have down.  It's additional tools
>> >> > in addition to g++ (and scripts that call g++) that I am asking about.
>>
>> >> You mean like IDE? Eclipse?
>>
>> >> > On Jun 15, 2:14 am, Umarzuki Mochlis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > > 2009/6/15 Chris Miller <[email protected]>
>>
>> >> > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jeremy Leonard<[email protected]>
>> >> > > > wrote:
>>
>> >> > > > > I am in the process of re-learning C++.  I know how to compile my
>> >> > > > > programs from the command line using gcc/g++.
>>
>> >> > > gccp temp.cpp
>>
>> >> > > check outhttp://www.arachnoid.com/cpptutor/setup_unix.html
>>
>> >> > > > I am also wanting to
>> >> > > > > learn how to use gdb from the command line.  Are there any other
>> >> > tools
>> >> > > > > available that would be useful to learn?  Right now I am primarily
>> >> > > > > concerned with tools that I can use from the command line.  
>> >> > > > > Thanks in
>> >> > > > > advance.
>>
>> >> > > > Valgrind helps check for memory leaks, that's a real important one 
>> >> > > > to
>> >> > > > learn.
>>
>> --http://rmgraham.blogspot.com
> >
>



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