On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Lennart Sorensen < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:43:06PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: > > I haven't done that. I have seldom used gdb directly. If I'm doing > debugging > > I use gdb via ddd. The ddd program makes debugging a lot easier (for me) > > than the command line based gdb. > > Last I looked at it (a long time ago), ddd had to be one of the worst, > most buggy, awful ui, pieces of crap I ever encountered. Even makes > eclipse seem like a good idea in comparison. So bad I have never ever > considered looking at it again. I assumed it had to have died out from > being so bad. > > Never had the pleasure. But Kevin, don't fear the command line. A well-designed graphical debugger is a good and useful tool, but when you absolutely need to get into the plumbing; memory setup, ICE hardware protocols, etc. (ad nauseam) you almost inevitably go sideways from where the GUI designers intended. Kvm-qemu kernel debugging probably falls squarely in this category. All roads lead to gdb, it sometimes seems... Mike
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