From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8140d808cc99353d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-24 00:28:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3FE949FF.FDEDB7C@sympatico.ca> From: David Marceau X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17-10mdksmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: which debugger? References: <6b257ddc.0312220125.3af1233b@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:10:39 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.92.161.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1072253588 65.92.161.163 (Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:13:08 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:13:08 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3775 Date: 2003-12-24T03:10:39-05:00 List-Id: antonio wrote: > > hi, > it's about 1 month that i try to hack with ada and i find it > wonderful. Now i spend some time to choose the appropriate tools for > development. I am an emacs user and i obiovsly like ada-mode for > emacs. i try to debug in emacs and everything seem to work, but i want > more, i see that gvd has in its features the capability of looking for > the sources related with the projects and other smart stuffs probably > based on gnat tools. But gvd seems to me full of bugs.. is it only an > impression? Can i have the same gvd features on emacs? I run gvd 1.2.0 > Thank you in advance. Yes you could use gvd for simple stuff and yes it is convenient since it does have a nice visual display for watching contents of locals and globals. The other added advantage is that you can configure gvd to coexist with gdbremote i.e debugging from another computer. Do remember though it is just a gui to gdb itself. Whatever gvd does you can display the information from the command line. Sure use emacs/gvd/whatever but in the end you're using gdb. So why not just read the gdb manual and get it over with? You'll also be better for it. Some frequently used commands: file "some.exeorbin" file "some.dllorso attach someProcessIDPointingToAnEXEOrDLLwithDebugInfoCompiledIntoIt info func somefunctionyouknow* info locals info globals break blah.c:999 print blahvar step next cont run list quit Hope it helps.