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What Good Linux Debuggers Are There?

Posted by Cliff on from the or...-working-around-the-gdb-shortcommings dept.

David Weekly asks: "I'm programming for a small software company that's got a fair bit of C++ code; we've been using gdb whilst on Linux, but have been a little frustrated by its shortcomings with multithreaded applications and its fumbling multiple inheritance issues. I poked around on the Net and, other than gdb, I was only able to find Etnus' TotalView as a modern, actively-developed Linux debugger. Are there really only two Linux debuggers (that one can take seriously)? How, for instance, do folks who code up Apache modules test them in multithreaded mode? (i.e., not just using '-X'.) I'd love to hear answers more substantive than 'use printf()' and/or 'just use ____, my favorite gdb frontend'."

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  1. GDB? by quinto2000 · · Score: 0, Troll



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  2. Visual C++ has a great debugger by cpeterso · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft's Visual C++ debugger is excellent. You can visually debug multiple threads, watch variable values, even set breakpoints depending expression evaluated at runtime. You can even debug processes on remote machines.

    oh, wait a minute.. Linux? then nevermind. Linus says debuggers are for wimps anyway, dontcha know?

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    cpeterso
  3. hey! by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's wrong with printf????