Tuesday, May 20, 2008

GDB hidden gem

Well at least it was hidden to me :D

Sometimes it's difficult to keep in view the surrounding lines of code when you are using GDB. list command helps but it's not that user friendly. So the other day a coworker told me about GDB TUI. You can enable it with Ctrl+X A and voilà you get the full listing of the code in a nice browseable view on the top :-)

And a screenie for your viewing pleasure:

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4 comments:

  1. UnknownTuesday, May 20, 2008 11:59:00 PM

    Oh my gawd

    <3

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  2. AnonymousWednesday, May 21, 2008 12:41:00 AM

    Or launch it by "gdb -tui"

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  3. AnonymousWednesday, May 21, 2008 4:14:00 AM

    I much prefer cgdb. It gives you syntax highlighting and vim keybindings while navigating the source. Just be sure to add:

    set autosourcereload

    to ~/.cgdb/cgdbrc

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  4. UnknownWednesday, May 21, 2008 9:12:00 AM

    Hi there Albert

    I accidentally discovered this a few weeks ago while debugging a program :P

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