GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization

Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization by alexhutcheson on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:48AM (#22348894)

For those who aren't aware, gdb has a curses-based 'Text User Interface' (TUI), which can be launched using 'gdb -tui': https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI.html#T...

The interface is surprisingly good, and it's what I recommend to new gdb users if they aren't using an IDE. I still prefer the Emacs integration[1], but I don't recommend that to people who aren't already experienced Emacs users.

[1] https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Emacs.html...

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Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization by abhgh on Monday February 17, 2020 @02:24PM (#22349924)

Seconding TUI. Pretty solid. In fact if you need a better debugger than that I see no reason as to not jump to a good IDE ... no other middle ground required.

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Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization by shmerl on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:46PM (#22350578)

Is it better than cgdb? https://cgdb.github.io

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Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization by alexhutcheson on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:06PM (#22351295)

I haven't tried cgdb. Based on the screenshots they look pretty similar.

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