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

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 22:30:25 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> 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.)

Does Visual Studio debugger have some sort of scripts/macros? 
When I was in a small kernel dev related team, we had a lot of 
own utility macros for gdb to help debug kernel core dumps, 
especially for messy cases like stack corruption.