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On 8/5/2011 5:41 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
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> My general issue with the VS debugger was that very often there would
> be cases where you could _see_ interesting data, but not be able to
> manipulate it, or be able to manipulate it, but only rather awkwardly
> (o-n-e-s-t-e-p-a-t-a-t-i-m-e... argh!)  For complex debugging tasks,
> this quickly became absolutely miserable
>
> With gdb, on the other hand, which is largely based on expression
> evaluation, while it was harder to visualize data, manipulation of it
> was vastly faster and easier (and more easily repeatable; often one
> wants to do the weird manipulation several times).

In other words, with VC++'s debugger you're actually deBUGging, finding 
out what's wrong, one step at a time, stopping to think, exiting to 
change the code, compile, run again, etc..  With gdb you're actually 
developing by tweaking the data, tweaking the program, altering 
execution, etc..  Yes, no, maybe?  It's a style debate, not the quality 
of tools debate.

V
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c++ compiler krishnakanth <kmanivan82@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 13:34 -0700
  Re: c++ compiler Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-03 17:11 -0400
    Re: c++ compiler "Waldek M." <wm@localhost.localdomain> - 2011-08-04 21:40 +0200
      Re: c++ compiler BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-04 15:06 -0700
      Re: c++ compiler Qi <no@no.no> - 2011-08-05 10:14 +0800
        Re: c++ compiler Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-08-05 15:02 +0900
          Re: c++ compiler BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-05 02:11 -0700
            Re: c++ compiler Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-08-05 18:41 +0900
              Re: c++ compiler Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-05 07:58 -0400
                Re: c++ compiler "Waldek M." <wm@localhost.localdomain> - 2011-08-05 21:30 +0200
                Re: c++ compiler Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-06 09:53 +1200
                Re: c++ compiler BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-05 15:10 -0700
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                Re: c++ compiler BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-05 18:30 -0700
                Re: c++ compiler Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-06 15:25 +1200
                Re: c++ compiler Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2011-08-06 10:42 +0200
                Re: c++ compiler Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-06 21:42 +1200
                Re: c++ compiler Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2011-08-06 15:38 +0200
                Re: c++ compiler BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-06 11:58 -0700
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              Re: c++ compiler BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-05 12:34 -0700
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