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Re: Amended Re: X11 stability with insight & gdb
- From: John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy dot net>
- To: Insight Users <insight at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:40:50 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Amended Re: X11 stability with insight & gdb
- Reply-to: John Mills <john dot m dot mills at alum dot mit dot edu>
Keith -
Thanks, especially for the GDB vs. INSIGHT caution. I'll play with that
setting; even now I can use S-N and GDB together. I appreciate S-N's
source-tree analysis but am otherwise OK using emacs w/ gdb.
- John
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Keith Seitz wrote:
> John Mills wrote:
> > Is there a way to have 'insight' start a "true" console window for my
> > application, or is a foreground startup from a console command line the
> > best way to debug a native app?
>
> If your program uses stdio and you're on a unix machine, you can use the
> target settings dialog to select "use xterm as inferior's tty".
>
> One note about this, though: you MUST use the Run button to start your
> application. There is still a huge disconnect between Insight's GUI and
> GDB's internals, so you cannot use the console window and type "run" to
> get this to work.
>
> Keith