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Subject: RE: Does anyone use insight on cygwin?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:51:47 +0100
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Christopher Faylor wrote on 05 August 2008 15:40:

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:25:32AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>> I use it from time to time, when raw gdb is not good enough.
>> Esp. with perl with its hundreds of vars I desperately need it.
>> 
>> gdb has some problems with dll's, but insight works fine.
> 
> insight is gdb so I can't really conceive of a situation where insight
> would work better than gdb wrt dlls.

  I can - indirectly.  Frex, it may be that insight drives gdb using
different workflow and subset of the available commands than Reini
habitually uses, thereby exercising different code paths and maybe avoiding
some problem area.


   cheers,
      DaveK
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