RE: How bad is GDB and C++? (was: GDB and c++ template class)
RE: How bad is GDB and C++? (was: GDB and c++ template class)
- Subject: RE: How bad is GDB and C++? (was: GDB and c++ template class)
- From: "Bill Lowrey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:44:04 -0600
- Organization: istation
Andy,
My company has switched to CodeWarrior because of this and other issues. And
yes, we've submitted bug reports, although I don't have access to the
numbers at the moment. In one particular case, if you used the gdb console,
you could "print x" and get the info, but the UI would lie to you.
To be fair, we gave up while using the 1.2 release, and I've never bothered
re-verifying the bugs for 1.5. They persisted from 1.0 to 1.2 though.
That and other irritations finally moved us to CodeWarrior, which had its
own issues, but at least we're writing/debugging/porting our own code now.
I'm not trying to troll, but we have a fairly complex app, with a huge code
base, and we just couldn't hang anymore. Weeks and months were slipping by.
So - I wish you well. GDB itself seems pretty good, as far as I can tell.
The UI, I can't swear by. YMMV, especially if 1.5 has improved enough.
Regards,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: xcode-users-bounces+billl=email@hidden
[mailto:xcode-users-bounces+billl=email@hidden] On Behalf Of
Andy Wiese
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:34 PM
To: Xcode Users
Subject: How bad is GDB and C++? (was: GDB and c++ template class)
I got a pretty grim report on GDB and C++ debugging in the previous
post from Mr. Tregaskis. Not that I doubt him, but I hope to ask the
question of a broader audience. Should I even bother trying to develop
a fairly complex generic c++ project in Xcode with GDB?
I have worked without a debugger (like back before there were
debuggers, iirc), and I've worked with a debugger, and life is better
with a debugger. I don't think I can afford to sacrifice the
productivity if GDB truly can't support c++ debugging in some fashion.
I don't need fancy features, (e.g. CW breakpoints by template
instance), but if I can't step through templatized classes and inspect
local variables, I think I have to give up on Xcode.
It looks like its going to be quite a bit of work to get enough of my
code ported into Xcode to even test this proposition, so if the cause
is truly hopeless, I would appreciate knowing before I dump much more
time into it.
Any opinions welcome... (sure, tell me that real programmers don't need
debuggers...I can take it!)
Andy
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