Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Trying to install GEDIT Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 22:13:51 +1300 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net gge/G0ADDIq3EbzqySeClQZvQESzFhnvBwdKFFV1UvYMPadggz Cancel-Lock: sha1:tBE+iG9Bm0plWkl97iqQZsiHrLs= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.development.apps:870 comp.lang.c:136326 On 06/10/18 20:45, jacobnavia wrote: > Le 06/10/2018 à 05:57, Spiros Bousbouras a écrit : >> Just what the world needs , another text editor > > I started writing the debugger for my linux version of lcc-win. It uses > the ptrace interface. > > If I have my own debugger, I could use the same debugging info format as > I use under windows or use the "stabs" format, that I generate correctly > now. > > If I would use the gnu "gdb" I would have to generate DWARF debug info, > what is an horrible MESS! > > And I do want to show the CONTEXT where the program is executing, and > for that I need a text editor! > > Besides I want a modern debugger, with automatic variable dispmlay (no > longer needed to write "print foo print bar" at each line like in gdb. > > Besides an IDE would be handy to make it easier to use the compiler. I > have already one under windows, so I wanted to rewrite a better one > under linux. Why don't you just integrate your debugger with an existing IDE (or three)? Most id not all IDEs on Linux work with gdb, so you should be able to use what has already be written. -- Ian.