Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

Antoninus Twink wrote:
> On  6 May 2008 at  8:22, jacob navia wrote:
>> Eclipse just calls gdb, and is happy with it
> 
> I'm interested to know what you think gdb is lacking. I've always though
> of it as the Rolls Royce of debuggers - it certainly does everything I
> want and more, and in an extremely usable environment.
> 

1) GDB is a command line debugger. No real user interface, you have
    to learn by heart a lot of obscure commands to do anything with it.
2) Even if it has been interfaced with every IDE in the world, it
    doesn't have a real interface. The programs that use gdb just scan
    gdb output...
3) edit and continue... That is one of the most challenging features of
    Microsoft IDE. I haven't had the time to replicate it, it isn't very
    easy to do :-)
4) My debugger scans the text around the current line, and shows the
    variables automatically. This avoids the terrible
    print myvariable
    in 90% of the cases... Gdb hasn't got anything like it.
5) I have fixed bugs in it, but none of my patches was even
    acknowledged. GDB developers do not give a dam about anybody else.

And a long list that better goes unpublished.


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