> Sounds interesting. I even took a quick look at it several weeks ago. > What is the quality/stability of their gdb front end? I am not that > happy with insight. BTW, what IS the latest or, should I say, the most > usable built of insight? Mine reports "GNU gdb 5.1.1". > > Sergei >
I've been using GVD as a front-end for gdb for many years now (although frequently I simply use the command-line version of gdb for simpler debugging tasks), along with various microcontrollers (msp430, avr, 68332, MPC561, Nios). My main reason for choosing it was problems building Insight for some of these ports under Cygwin - Insight always seems to be the most problematic part of the gcc toolchain to build. But since gvd is a seperate program that runs the command-line gdb, the same gvd binary works for all gdb's. Like gdb and other front-ends, gvd has its quirks, but it works well enough for most purposes. I haven't had more than a quick glance at GPS so far, but it would be the next logic step (GPS is a full IDE from the same people that wrote GVD, and its debugger is a newer version of GVD). I'll also be looking at eclipse (since the new Nios II kit uses it), but I expect to use GPS in the future too (it is smaller and faster than eclipe, being native code rather than java).