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Yeah, GDB and Valgrind are heavily encouraged at the University of Michigan in both introductory and advanced classes. Talking to friends at other universities,

by kevinnk 14y ago

Yeah, GDB and Valgrind are heavily encouraged at the University of Michigan in both introductory and advanced classes. Talking to friends at other universities, it seems like most other places encourage it too.

__float 14y ago
As a student attending the University of Michigan this fall, I was looking through the introductory programming course syllabus and it mentions only ddd. Is gdb something used more heavily in further courses more specific to those pursuing a concentration in EECS?
- kevinnk 14y ago
  Maybe it's professor specific, but EECS 151, 280 and 281 all stressed using gdb. ddd was mentioned, but most of the debugging examples used gdb. I took these class several years ago though, so it's also possible things have changed since then.
- mrbabbage 14y ago
  ddd is a graphical frontend to gdb and a few other debuggers (like jdb). ddd's UI is straight out of the 90s era of commercial Unices, but I prefer it to gdb since it visualizes source code with breakpoints and the ip and has some nice variable displaying / plotting features (ie it's very easy to visualize a matrix AS a matrix if you're doing some graphics work) edit: ddd also has a gdb prompt at the bottom, so you really don't lose much by using ddd over gdb unless you can't run an X server
  - tyrmored 14y ago
    cgdb is a nice visualization frontend too: <http://cgdb.github.com/&#62 http://cgdb.github.com/>
    - aerique 14y ago
      And for the die hard Emacs users there's: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gdb.html http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gd... I generally try to refrain from bringing up Emacs in threads that have nothing to do with it (since Emacs does everything) but I was pleasantly surprised by its gdb support and I have used it extensively in the past.
    - mark_mcs 14y ago
      How does this compare to gdb TUI? For the most part I find TUI adequate but I'm always open to alternatives.

by kevinnk 14y ago

__float 14y ago

As a student attending the University of Michigan this fall, I was looking through the introductory programming course syllabus and it mentions only ddd. Is gdb something used more heavily in further courses more specific to those pursuing a concentration in EECS?

kevinnk 14y ago
Maybe it's professor specific, but EECS 151, 280 and 281 all stressed using gdb. ddd was mentioned, but most of the debugging examples used gdb. I took these class several years ago though, so it's also possible things have changed since then.
mrbabbage 14y ago
ddd is a graphical frontend to gdb and a few other debuggers (like jdb). ddd's UI is straight out of the 90s era of commercial Unices, but I prefer it to gdb since it visualizes source code with breakpoints and the ip and has some nice variable displaying / plotting features (ie it's very easy to visualize a matrix AS a matrix if you're doing some graphics work) edit: ddd also has a gdb prompt at the bottom, so you really don't lose much by using ddd over gdb unless you can't run an X server
- tyrmored 14y ago
  cgdb is a nice visualization frontend too: <http://cgdb.github.com/&#62 http://cgdb.github.com/>
  - aerique 14y ago
    And for the die hard Emacs users there's: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gdb.html http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gd... I generally try to refrain from bringing up Emacs in threads that have nothing to do with it (since Emacs does everything) but I was pleasantly surprised by its gdb support and I have used it extensively in the past.
  - mark_mcs 14y ago
    How does this compare to gdb TUI? For the most part I find TUI adequate but I'm always open to alternatives.