Learning C with gdb

Re:Learning C with gdb by jplahn on Sunday May 17, 2015 @11:47PM (#9562791)

Interesting resource! I like this take on learning C.

On another note, I LOVE gdb. One of my prof's begged and pleaded for us to use gdb with all of our assignments because he claimed it would make life easier. For our first two computer org classes, you might be able to skate by without it (except for the buffer bomb and binary bomb), but once you reached the third semester and beyond, those that didn't spend a little time acclimating themselves with gdb began to hate life.

I really do love gdb. It saved my ass more times than I can remember.

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Re:Learning C with gdb by userbinator on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:11AM (#9563137)

I have a feeling that it was your first debugger, and that you've not used any others...

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Re:Learning C with gdb by calibraxis on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:43AM (#9563207)

What other debuggers stand out as the best, in your mind?

(I'm thinking specifically for C-on-Unix, but whatever you wish...)

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Re:Learning C with gdb by dvdfvo on Monday May 18, 2015 @04:18AM (#9563286)

Anything with a UI.

I'm not saying gdb is not a great tool. It is especially useful when you don't have a debugger at all.

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Re:Learning C with gdb by harkyns_castle on Monday May 18, 2015 @06:51AM (#9563664)

I quite like Eclipse's debugging support (for Java), though I haven't used it for C. I think you can get GDB integrated into Eclipse's CDT with breakpoints etc.

Haven't used DDD either but it looks interesting too:

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

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