Was anybody else disappointed that it's still just gdb for the debugger? I've thought for a long time that something better must be out there, especially a debugger that better handles multiple threads in an application, but every time I need to debug something I'm back in the 80s.
What would be better? How to improve the handling of multiple threads?
Every time I have tried a different debugger, I have always ended up coming running back to GDB. My only gripes with it are basically gripes with DWARF.
I still use dbx from Sun Studio. The now-oracle connection taints it, but it was from good old Sun. It was always better than gdb for threaded debugging.
Haven't checked if it is still available but I have it installed from long ago.
I don't get what it's missing other than a GUI. I can view stacktraces, view memory in various formats, create new commands on the fly or in .gdbinit... what are people missing?
I tried to love ddd for quite a few months. It's definitely a GUI, of the same era as Xfig. That's about the nicest thing I can say about it; I prefer the CLI.
What about lldb? Has anybody had extensive experience with both to say anything about the actual debugging experience? Does it offer anything more than just "infrastructure"?
Pernosco is certainly 2021... Debugging as a service...
Did anyone try it? It looks like it a web frontend for rr, but the idea seems alien to me, especially the pricing part. A subscription for a number of submissions per month?! If there is anything you can't really plan, it is bugs, one month, you may need only one or two, the next it will be 50 in a day.
It’s more than merely a front–end for rr, because with rr you are still inspecting a single moment in time in your program. You can rewind to past moments any time you want, but that fundamental limitation remains. With Pernosco you are really querying a database that contains all the information about all the states your program was ever in. It’s a superpower that you can purchase.
I think the price is generally worth it, if you have at least a couple bugs to use it on every month. If you have more than 5 per month but don’t want to go up a tier, I believe you can pay “a la carte” just for the extras. If you have enough people, and you can afford the hardware to run it, I really recommend the on–premises installation.
