DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-06-13 22:18, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> The differences between a graphical debugger and gdb are fairly interesting in
> that all the basic stuff is just way easier and more pleasant in a graphical
> debugger, but gdb has all kinds of advanced stuff that tends to blow graphical
> debuggers out of the water in terms of power.
>
> It would probably be best if the two could be properly combined so that all of
> stuff that does better graphically is done in a proper graphical debugger, but
> you have a command-line interface integrated into it for the more advanced
> stuff. You can at least sort of get that with some front-ends to gdb, but their
> graphical portion is never as good as it should be IMHO. Visual Studio
> definitely wins in that area.

All graphical debuggers I have used (Eclipse, Xcode) are using GDB or 
LLDB as a backend. They all provide a command line for entering commands 
directly.

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/Jacob Carlborg