[Coco] OT: gcc debugging was Re: OS-9 C Compiler

[Lee Patterson]

I'm probably jumping in half way through this thread. But Java debugging can be done in the Eclipse IDE (another popular IDE is InteliJ IDEA). You can single stop over each line of code, inspect variables, set watches, set break points. It works really well. Over all debugging is very good. I'm also very happy with source browsing; being able to find classes, calls to a method, etc. 

There is a package for C/C++ at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers/mars1 but I have not tried compiling via CMOC. 

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> On Feb 17, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Theodore (Alex) Evans <alxevans at concentric.net> wrote:
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> On 02/16/2016 07:48 PM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>> Probably not as that kind of integration is generally not the UNIX way.
>> 
>> Ah, the root of the deficiency has been found. Don't ever do anything that would be useful as the years go by.
> 
> The idea is to have a collection of small programs that each do one thing well.  Of course that is an ideal and many tools do not follow this philosophy.
> 
>>> external debugger on your code.  There are things like eclipse which
>>> will call all of these programs for you and make them appear integrated.
>> 
>> Setting breakpoints at the "C" source level?
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> You can set breakpoints in gdb.  The easiest way is to set one at a line you are currently at.
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>> When you hit a breakpoint can you then look at your variables in their natural form.
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>> Single step one "C" line at a time?
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> gdb does this.
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>> define "watches" so that you can see their variables as they change in real time?
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> I am unaware of a way to do this, but it is probably possible.
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>> And more debugging options at the "C" source level?
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>> What about Java?
> 
> Eclipse was actually written for Java, but I can't really tell you about the debugging facilities as I haven't used then much.
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