Re: Quick Question about GPS IDE

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:21:20 +0100, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>
>> Le 28/12/2014 13:41, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>>> Its gdb is totally unusable in any real-life sized project. You will not be
>>> able to initialize the program and set a break point, as simple as this.
>> ???
>> Debug/Initialize, then click in the left margin in front of the line
>> where you want to set a breakpoint. Looks like simple and intuitive...
>> 
>> Note: I rarely use debuggers in general,
>
> That's why you believe it would work.
>
>> but I can't let such an
>> incorrect information without a rebutal...
>
> As I said, in a real size project you either will not be able to set the
> breakpoint after you initialize or else it will not stop at the breakpoint.
> Actually it will not stop anywhere. I don't know if that depends on the
> size or on libraries used, maybe on both. Even when you could set a
> breakpoint you not guaranteed to be able to debug the program. It can go
> mad at any time, while stepping through etc. The fact is, it is totally
> unusable in practice.

Just for the record, I use gdb fairly often, on real projects (a NASA
simulator, home projects), and have _never_ had these issues. I've run
it on Lynx (a real-time OS) both natively and via the remote interface,
on Windows, Red Hat and Debian.

So it depends on the details of your project.

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