Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 15:26:08 -0500
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: cburke AT mitre DOT org (Carl D. Burke)
Subject: Re: Debuggers

>gdb is incredibly powerful if you know how to use it; it's the best
>debugger I've ever seen.  Sure, it doesn't pop up little windows with
>friendly buttons (unless you are running one of the graphical front
>ends under Unix), but who cares?

It may be powerful if you know how to use it, but where do you learn that?
I've tried setting breakpoints and examining variables, and it gives me
some garbage about non-existent symbols (yes, -g was on).  I don't use
assembly level debuggers very often, since if it gets that bad I've
already failed, but it's not even as easy to use as dbx, which is pretty
bad.  The info file didn't seem very helpful -- is there some tutorial
somewhere that shows how to use gdb?

--

Rule of thumb: if you really need the debugger, the debugger will have bugs.

Carl Burke