On Thursday, September 03 2015, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 12:21:50PM -0400, Mike wrote:
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...
gdb's command line is certainly overwhelming to many, but if I was really desparate for an interface to gdb, I would use emacs, and I am a vim user.
Emacs has a good (or gud?) interface to GDB, but sometimes it lacks one feature or another. What I recommend to every GDB beginner (or even non-beginners, because they also don't know about this feature) is TUI, the Text User Interface inside GDB itself. It is ncurses-based, and after a long period of being unmaintained (and buggy), it has been receiving some TLC again lately. To enter TUI, press C-x a. To leave TUI, C-x a again. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/