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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Which development tools do you use ?
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2001-10-18 15:56:03
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On Thursday 18 October 2001 17:31, John Gluck wrote:
>
> GDB is a command line tool. It won't suddenly develop a spiffy GUI.

It could at least have evolved so as to offer better C++ support :-). Having 
to put 'void' in method prototypes sucks a bit, for instance.

> DDD will give you that.

I wish. It's less bad, but still very lacking.

> Why? What's the problem. We all have a story or 2 to tell you may not like
> them but you're not the only person on this list. For some people the war
> stories may bring bake a fond memory or 2.Don't take things so seriously.
> It's bad for the blood pressure :-)

Sorry, it's just that it had a "you're a wuss because you can't use gdb" tone 
:-). I apologize if that wasn't your intent.

> > But in general that won't help me find why an STL
> > iterator is invalid or why that widget won't draw properly, or knowing
> > what are the contents of this hash table.
>
> Knowing the debugger and compiler options will help. That means taking the
> time to look at the doc and learning how.

I did that, long ago. gdb is just too low level, and no GUI so far is really 
good.

-- 
Guillaume
http://www.telegraph-road.org
 
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