On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:55:54 UTC, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:

> REH a �crit :
> > Anyone remember the open source GNU Visual Debugger project that was
> > done by what is now AdaCore?  They abandoned it when they started GPS.
> > I am trying to find the source of the last release (which I believe was
> > 1.2.6).  The latest I can find is 1.2.0 off of a Debian site.  Can
> > anyone point me to it?  It was a great frontend for GDB.
> 
> GPS has replaced GVD and is now *the* great frontend for GDB. What wrong
> with using GPS for debugging ?
> 
> Pascal.
> 

One potential reason is that gvd is faster to come up than gps.  You 
may just want to attach to a running executable, and gvd is faster for
that.

Of course, there are problems with gvd where sometimes you need to 
kill it and try again.

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