Using GDB without PB

[paul at eisusa.com (Paul Nicholson)]

At 12:14 AM -0800 3/18/02, bhaller@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>Say it ain't true. Is GDB and PB the state of the art in OS X debugging?
>
>  No.  gdb in Terminal is the state of the art in OS X debugging.  gdb in pb is somewhere between an exercise in frustration and an exercise in futility, in my experience.  :->  I'm not sure this is the fault of the PB engineers particularly; I think gdb has many foibles that make it difficult to wrap in a GUI.  Personally, I don't think I would have even tried; I would have devoted my efforts to either making gdb better with no GUI, or to making a new debugger abandoning gdb.  But maybe the current approach will pay off eventually...

It looks like the gui issues text commands back and forth to GDB. Is that waht's happening, or does GDB have an interface plug for a gui on it?

>>Heaven help the one who needs to do some real debugging.

I've been using it all day. Yes it works, but it's painstakingly slow to use.

Paul