Re: Bug Database?

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net> writes:
> Which results in the fact that gdb is since years completely unusable
> for C++ programs relying on templated functions. 

Well, while I'll admit that the last I looked[*] the gdb internals were
awful, unreadable, and barely maintainable code, this statement simply
isn't true.

[*] Many years ago, so take this with a grain of salt.

I spend lots of time debugging heavily templated C++ code in gdb, and
basically there are few problems (other than the canonical "optimized
code can be confusing in the debugger" issues).  While debugging around
templates requires a bit of knowledge about what's actually going on,
it's no different than many other general debugging problems; you run
into minor annoyances, and you quickly find ways around them.

> So most C++ developers I know have switched to the "free as in free
> beer but not free as in free software" debugger from Sun Studio which
> in contrast to gdb works really well.

I suspect this has more to do with the sort of developers you know than
with gdb.

-Miles

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