using a c debugger with a curses program

Ido Yehieli <Ido.Yehieli.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
> it seems ddd doesn't work all to well with programs running
>pdcurses (it kind of works for a short while and then crashes more
>often than not). Insight doesn't even manage to start my game...
>
>Does anyone have any idea on how to use a debugger under these
>circumstances? Using ncursese doesn't seem to help much either.

I find that gdb works just fine with ncurses programs on Linux.

What platform are you using?
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On Jan 26, 5:52 pm, coppro <ride....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 12:18 pm, Ido Yehieli <Ido.Yehi....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > it seems ddd doesn't work all to well with programs running
> > pdcurses (it kind of works for a short while and then crashes more
> > often than not). Insight doesn't even manage to start my game...
>
> > Does anyone have any idea on how to use a debugger under these
> > circumstances? Using ncursese doesn't seem to help much either.
>
> Run your debugger from a separate terminal window and remotely attach
> it to the process.
>
> It will save you *massive* headaches.
>
> I haven't have experience using DDD, though. *goes and installs DDD*
>
> We'll see what happens.

Some preliminary experimentation with DDD has no troubles as long as I
attach it separately - there's no hope trying to get it to start
internally. It even pops up with a list of processes when you go File-
>Attach Process..., so it's easy to pick the right one. No crashes as
of yet.
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On Jan 27, 8:05 am, coppro <ride....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some preliminary experimentation with DDD has no troubles as long as I
> attach it separately - there's no hope trying to get it to start
> internally. It even pops up with a list of processes when you go File->Attach Process..., so it's easy to pick the right one. No crashes as
> of yet.

Yea, I got it working now.

Thanks,
Ido.
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I find that kdbg (http://www.kdbg.org/) is a good front end to gdb.

--Chris

On Jan 27, 1:50 am, Ido Yehieli <Ido.Yehi... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 8:05 am, coppro <ride... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Some preliminary experimentation with DDD has no troubles as long as I
> > attach it separately - there's no hope trying to get it to start
> > internally. It even pops up with a list of processes when you go File->Attach Process..., so it's easy to pick the right one. No crashes as
> > of yet.
>
> Yea, I got it working now.
>
> Thanks,
> Ido.
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