Octave and GDB (Was: Octave debugging (emacs))

[David Grundberg]

On 06/17/2010 09:28 AM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

> My general experience is that debuggers are only useful for the
> simplest kinds of errors. More complicated error conditions can't be
> discovered by simply *looking* at data, you need to *compute* to check
> (checksums, invariants, known equivalent expressions etc), and
> debuggers really don't help you at that.

I think there is a suggestion in the PROJECT file about integrating 
Octave into gdb, so that one could use Octave to compute and plot data 
from the debugee.  That would be really handy.

David