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Re: Trying to install GEDIT

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On 06/10/18 09:45, 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!

gdb should be fine with stabs, I think.

Dwarf is the modern format for debugging information because it can 
support far more detail than stabs - things like macro definitions, 
tracking variables as they move between registers, showing structs that 
are partly in registers, variables that have been eliminated or 
transformed by optimisation, etc.  I can well believe that it is a much 
more complex format as it supports those features.

But AFAIUI gdb supports other formats, including stabs.

> 
> 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.
> 
> 

I fully agree that using an IDE is useful.  Perhaps you could use 
something like Eclipse or Netbeans as the IDE, and talk to the debugger 
in the same way as they talk to gdb?  If your debugger supports the same 
MI interface as gdb, then you could use the existing debugger support in 
those IDEs.  If your debugger has its own methods for communicating with 
the gui, then you might need to make your own plugins - that would, I 
think, mean Java programming, but it would be a smaller project than 
writing everything from scratch.

If you can use gdb, it would be easier - then you can use an existing 
debugger and a range of existing IDEs on many platforms.

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  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2018-10-05 20:10 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-07 18:02 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2018-10-07 12:31 -0400
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      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-08 02:40 +0000
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-10-05 20:15 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-06 02:34 +0000
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 03:57 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 09:45 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2018-10-06 22:13 +1300
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-10-06 16:14 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-10-06 14:53 +0000
        Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 19:42 +0200
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT C W Rose <cwr@seckford.org> - 2018-10-06 20:57 +0100
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