DDD replacement

[Aidan Gauland]

Hello,

I've been using mainly Emacs as my GDB frontend, and sometimes DDD when
I need a better data display. Problem is DDD is driving me insane. I
don't know if it's quirks of the toolkit it uses, or quirks of DDD
itself, but I don't like it. It may be that I can reconfigure it to
address the current annoyances, but I greatly dislike its interface in
comparison to other debuggers I have used.

Can anyone recommend a similarly powerful GDB frontend (preferably using
GTK)? I mainly use Emacs, but its data display is inadequate at times.

Thanks,
Aidan

[Volker Kuhlmann]

Post by Aidan Gauland
Can anyone recommend a similarly powerful GDB frontend (preferably using
GTK)? I mainly use Emacs, but its data display is inadequate at times.

Well there's ddd, ddd, and insight. The last is programmed in tcl/tk,
which reduces your chances of improvements over ddd and its toolkit
somewhat.

Otherwise, you have heard of

http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=gdb+gui

? Eclipse seems to be another option.

HTH,

Volker

[David Moore]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:58:39 +1200

Post by Aidan Gauland
Can anyone recommend a similarly powerful GDB frontend (preferably using
GTK)? I mainly use Emacs, but its data display is inadequate at times.

Nemiver [1] is a more modern looking GTK front end for GDB.
Recently I've been using CGDB [2] which is a very good CUI interface.

DDD although quirky and old school, still has some neat data
visualization that I think is hard to match. It's a shame it hasn't
had more active development over the years.

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/nemiver
[2] http://cgdb.sourceforge.net

Cheers, David.

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