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

> In none of my projects GDB works. I never tried to figure out if that
> is related to the number of compilation units or number of library
> projects involved.
>
> When you click Debug->Initialize->your-main-program in GPS and
> debugger does not start you know you reached the point.
>
> P.S. It never worked reliable in GPS and I bet it never will.

I might well find the same if I used GPS. But there's been a lot of
trouble with GDB and macOS[1], and even after the latest fix there's
still a knack to getting GDB to start properly: see [2]. So it's
command-line only, plus swearing.

But 90% of the time it's a matter of looking at the fatal exception
traceback.

Of course, I'm not dealing with large real-time problems.

[1] https://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2018/11/mojave-vs-gdb.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24069