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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 22:30:25 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 20:19:06 UTC, 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.
>
> What can gdb do in particular that Visual Studio can't?
>
> Not trying to troll, I'm genuinely curious. I googled for 
> advanced gdb tricks to try and find some of the more advanced 
> stuff, but it was all simple things that Visual Studio does 
> (printing variables, disassembling, casting memory to arbitrary 
> types, pretty printing STL containers, conditional/data 
> breakpoints, running commands on hit breakpoints etc.)

The only thing that GDB can do that Visual Studio does not offer 
is a REPL like environment for C and C++ code. Visual Studio 
immediate window only supports managed languages properly.

Everything else, VS wins hands down, specially when debugging 
data structures (thanks to visualizers) or 
multithreading/parallel code.

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Paulo