I wish it did....

I wish it did....

[James Hawtin]

Resently I went arround checking out graphical debuggers for linux, sadly
non of them quite met my needs... which are pretty simple.

I want to debug MY program... Thats the one thing with open source
program, (I have a scratch built linux system) when you come to debug a
program, it wanders off though system libraries when steping etc,
libraries for many people these are not of interest. ddd did quite well,
it allowed me to not load simbols from share libraries, however when
debugging a poll problem get some problems with it hanging and not
returnign control to my main program. Insight worked
better (probably cos it is linked with gdb unlike others which layer on
top of gdb so has more underlying data). However when it when into poll,
not supprisingly it could not find the source for the library.... but
still wants to step though sub functions and had some problems returning
to my code. In the code listing it just has a blank space, it would be
nicer if it atleast show some indication of what it was doing in the
window.

Printing local variables, I wish there was a mode which would print all
the local variables out in a heriarchy, rather than just the ones just at
current stack frame level.

Its sad to say, but I still think The Visual C++ debugger is better, which
is kind of annoying to admin to my windows peers who keep trying to
convert me :-(

James