Re:The State of Linux Debuggers
by richardwhiuk on Sunday December 13, 2020 @12:54PM
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> The display isn't really buggy, it's just the debugee output messed up the terminal.
That's clearly a horrible UX bug. The point of a debugger is to debug something which is probably going horribly wrong - having it mess up the debug output is a massive pain.
Clearly GDB could prevent this by intercepting the debuggee and preventing it from overwriting the rest of the screen.
Re:The State of Linux Debuggers
by tromey on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:03PM
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Yes, just nobody has implemented it. It's kind of a pain. Also it brings up the question of whether GDB ought to implement a terminal so you can debug curses applications inside the TUI, which is even more of a pain.
That's clearly a horrible UX bug. The point of a debugger is to debug something which is probably going horribly wrong - having it mess up the debug output is a massive pain.
Clearly GDB could prevent this by intercepting the debuggee and preventing it from overwriting the rest of the screen.