On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:43:06PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
I haven't done that. I have seldom used gdb directly. If I'm doing debugging I use gdb via ddd. The ddd program makes debugging a lot easier (for me) than the command line based gdb.
Last I looked at it (a long time ago), ddd had to be one of the worst, most buggy, awful ui, pieces of crap I ever encountered. Even makes eclipse seem like a good idea in comparison. So bad I have never ever considered looking at it again. I assumed it had to have died out from being so bad.
Never had the pleasure. But Kevin, don't fear the command line. A well-designed graphical debugger is a good and useful tool, but when you absolutely need to get into the plumbing; memory setup, ICE hardware protocols, etc. (ad nauseam) you almost inevitably go sideways from where the GUI designers intended. Kvm-qemu kernel debugging probably falls squarely in this category. All roads lead to gdb, it sometimes seems... Mike