Re: [LI] Ever tried DDD? - say no to printf(3s)

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Vishal Khanna wrote:

> just my Rs 0.02 

> Agree with Satish, sounds like a painter trying to have diff shades
> and then doing up the wall again.. gdb(1) is the best tool I have
> found in the last few years of programming and I still wonder how some
> people are not

Gdb has at least one limitation in my experience. It cannot follow the
child part of a fork() system call. OTOH, dbx can (at least on SunOS).
Since there is no dbx on linux, to debug a child, either change the code
(!) or use printf's...

I have also heard that gdb is not very useful in debugging the linux
kernel, especially a running one. That is, gdb /vmlinuz /proc/kcore is not
a nice thing to do. Comments, anyone?

Binand

- -- 
#include <stdio.h>                                   | Binand Raj S.
char *p = "#include <stdio.h>%cchar *p = %c%s%c;     | This is a self-
int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}%c";    | printing program.
int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}        | Try it!!

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