ddd critique on Qt list

[Christoph Koegl]

Maybe someone can comment on this. I suppose the mentioned DDD limitations are
actually limitations of the underlying debugger.

Christoph

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Subject: Re: X Window GUI Based Debuggers
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:18:10 -0800
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Personally I think all of the GUI's for gdb that I've tried under Linux are
piece(s) crap.  I realize they're free.  Maybe that's why they're not very
productive.

I debug my app with Visual Studio 6.0 under Windows.  Every so often I just
compile the app under Linux.  With "Edit and Continue" debugging with VS is
fast and efficient.  Moreover, with header-precompilation and incremental
linking support it's 10 times faster to build the same project on Windows
than on Linux.

With ddd, you can't even set a breakpoint while the program is running.  You
have to break (interrupt) it first, set the breakpoint, then continue.  If
you have 10 threads running at the time, you'd have to "continue" at least
10 times before the program resumes.  That's with the default settings.
Sometimes when your program crashes ddd chokes and you can't even exit it.
You must "killall -9 ddd" to terminate it.  There are many annoying things.
Other than that it's useable.

Someone is working on a new debugger GUI based on Qt that looks very
promising.  I forgot the link.  Last I checked it was not released yet, but
the screenshots look awesome.

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