When I think debugger, I think gdb, which is fine to a point. But after a while, its interactivity becomes a liability. I don't want to have to set the same b

When I think debugger, I think gdb, which is fine to a point. But after a while, its interactivity becomes a liability. I don't want to have to set the same breakpoints and watches after a recompile, every time. The integrated debuggers in IDE's are much better, particularly the Java ones. The C/C++ ones have the problem that they will work fine on code compiled with debug symbols, but on release code they're awful. And when it comes down to it, the really hard to fix problems are the ones that only show up in the optimized release code.