Subject: Re: Debugging on Linux
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 10:05:10 CDT
Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>
> According to Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com>:
> > I finally got around to building Abi for Linux/GTK so I could compare
> > things and make sure all my patches work as they do on Windows.
> > I had *loads* of asserts and a few crashes!
> > Would anyone here be able to recommend a debugger for Linux?
> > Commandline gdb is pretty daunting. Are there any GUI debuggers
> > that are any good? Can anybody point me to good tutorials on
> > the net somewhere? What's the best way to simply start gdb
> > to debug AbiWord?
>
> ddd is a good GUI frontend to gdb. It is in most distributions.
>
> > Unfortunately, due to crap modems and crap ISP, I can't access
> > the internet when I'm in Linux ):
>
> :-(
>
> > Has anyone experimented with the Encoded Text import/export
> > on *nix? It seemed to have some nasty problems that I'd like
> > to sort out.
>
> Import worked fine as far as I can tell.
I've attached a file I use a lot for testing. It's a .abw
with a bunch of different scripts. If you load this, save
as UTF-8, then load the UTF-8 again, it should appear identical
to the original. We might want to include this file in CVS
somewhere?
> > Saving as Unicode gave me files where all the
> > non-roman characters turned to "?".
>
> That is most often a problem of display in the terminal rather than a real
> problem in the file.
Not in this case as the above test failed ):
> > In some cases I ended
> > up with 0-length files with garbage for names being created!
>
> This is BAD.
It's EVIL!
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