[lug] At last! A graphical debugger.

[Scott A. Herod]

Yes, in fact I've used Insight rather regularly.  Version is:

[herod at torries bin]$ ./gdb --version
GNU gdb 5.0
Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Rob Savoye pointed it out to me a couple of years ago.

The reasons that I now prefer DDD include; motif ( makes it peppier ),
mouse-over a variable can show its value, it has a graphical method of
displaying watch variables, displaying classes in tables with arrows
linking to other structures, and graphical display of arrays.

In fact, it really does look a lot like SGI's Casevision Workshop, a
tool which I used to live on.

Now if I could just find a reliable memory-checking tool ( I don't 
trust dmalloc and don't think it works with "new" anyway ).

On a related note, I wonder how hard it would be to make some of the 
display tools work with jdb.  I know you work on gcj, Tom, have you
done anything with Insight in that direction?

Scott

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott A Herod <herod at interact-tv.com> writes:
> 
> Scott> Since I've moaned here a couple of times about the lack of a good
> Scott> graphical wrapper for gdb, I have to now sing the praises of DDD,
> Scott> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
> 
> Have you tried Insight?  If so, when?  And what is it about DDD that
> makes you prefer it?
> 
> I use Insight pretty frequently, and I'll occasionally hack in a new
> feature that I want.  So I'm curious both to see if I should switch
> and also to see if there's something worthwhile I could add to
> Insight.
> 
> Insight is pretty good, and though it is by no means perfect, the
> biggest problem by far is gdb's tendency to crash when I'm debugging.
> 
> Tom