Re: Xcode debugger quality

FROM : William Squires
DATE : Fri May 02 05:25:15 2008

Not sure if this applies, but - for those experiencing all these 
problems - did you turn off that 'zerolink' thing? I've heard that 
throws it for a loop, too. (This may not apply anymore, but I 
remember that used to be a 'feature' back in XCode 1 or so.)

On May 1, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Bill Lowrey wrote:

> FWIW, The debugger was the reason my company moved to CodeWarrior 
> from Xcode 1.1. We've obviously had to come back, and the positive 
> thing is that the debugger is IMO much better than it used to be. 
> It usually works now, at least for me, and at least so far. It 
> doesn't work as well as it should, but I'm fairly tolerant given 
> how bad it was.
>
> I've never used gdb from the command-line. Is it any more reliable 
> when used directly? Would it be worth trying?
>
> Even when the Xcode interface to the debugger couldn't display a 
> variable, gdb always had the right data. If you are having 
> consistent problems with variable display timeouts, make friends 
> with the gdb prompt. It's better than NSLog and/or printf. Is it a 
> pain? Yeah. Is it better than having nothing? Yep.
>
> The whole GUI debugging experience seems to work much better with 
> DWARF than with stabs, so if anyone hasn't moved to DWARF yet, I'd 
> recommend it.
>
> Just my .02.
>
> Bill Lowrey
> Sr. Software Engineer
> istation.com
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:31 AM, James Larcombe 
> <<email_removed>> wrote:
> > Roy Lovejoy wrote:
> >
> >  > IIRC, Metrowerks Codewarrior used gdb for OSX, and
> >  > although a smidge slower than its OS 9 versions, still
> >  > performed high quality debugging, without any of Xcode's
> >  > issues.
> >
> >  That's not my recollection; the quality of the Codewarrior
> >  debugger reduced dramatically when it moved to GDB, in
> >  terms of both speed and reliability.
> >
> >  James
> >
> >
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