[SOLVED] I need a C/C++ debugger that works.

edbarx · 04-24-2014, 09:25 PM

I need a debugger to debug C/C++ compiled code. The executable is compile with the g++ -g directive. I have been trying in vain to succeed in making a debugger work although there are many. In particular I need to watch variable values.

Any ideas, or the only two ways in the open source community are to either use gdb and to use cout calls to display variable values?

AlucardZero · 04-24-2014, 09:29 PM

so.. you didn't say what's wrong with gdb

edbarx · 04-24-2014, 09:36 PM

The problem is not gdb itself, but rather, with other debugger frontends using it. They all fail miserably. I don't know what is happening to them as I didn't examine their code.

I need a debugger to watch values as I trace the code. gdb only shows one line of code at a time making it very difficult to imagine what is happening. Furthermore, I didn't find any information about how to watch values using gdb.

pan64 · 04-25-2014, 12:29 AM

so probably you need to try ddd. https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

edbarx · 04-25-2014, 06:06 AM

Finally, I found a help file worthy of its name. I am using gdb: it works and I can trace variable values as I run my code.