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text-based frontend to GDB for Linux

Hello, All!

I'm looking for a good frontend to GDB for Linux environment. All i could find are focused on graphical environment, but I'd prefer text-based version. Could you recommend me some?

Thanks in advance!

With best regards, Roman Mashak. E-mail: snipped-for-privacy@tusur.ru

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Roman Mashak
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try gdb -v and you'll see that gdb has a text based interface.

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Tim Keck

I am not sure what you mean. I am using redhat-linux. and the gdb command is text mode.

Best Regards,

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wuulong

I think the OP means a more user friendly text mode front end. One which shows the current source in a text window, and provides hot keys for common commands like step etc. Something like the Turbo C debugger interface on Turbo C 3.

Regards Anton Erasmus

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Anton Erasmus

Hello, Anton! You wrote on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:36:18 +0200:

??>> I am not sure what you mean. ??>> I am using redhat-linux. and the gdb command is text mode. ??>>

AE> I think the OP means a more user friendly text mode front end. One AE> which shows the current source in a text window, and provides hot keys AE> for common commands like step etc. Something like the Turbo C debugger AE> interface on Turbo C 3. Exactly. And I found some, thanks to this group ;)

With best regards, Roman Mashak. E-mail: snipped-for-privacy@tusur.ru

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Roman Mashak

Can you post the stuff that you found. I also would like a slightly more friendly user interface for gdb without using X.

Regards Anton Erasmus

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Anton Erasmus

Hello, Anton! You wrote on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:18:53 +0200:

AE>>> keys for common commands like step etc. Something like the Turbo C AE>>> debugger interface on Turbo C 3. ??>> Exactly. And I found some, thanks to this group ;)

AE> Can you post the stuff that you found. I also would like a slightly AE> more friendly user interface for gdb without using X.

1) as on of posters here noted: "gdb -tui" will provide some interface (as for me I found this option in gdb-6.3.50) 2) and I found 'cgdb'
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be pretty comfortable and well-orginized package (IMHO :) )

With best regards, Roman Mashak. E-mail: snipped-for-privacy@tusur.ru

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Roman Mashak

Emacs provides a much better interface to gdb that saves a lot of typing and confusion. Executing the Emacs command M-x gdb starts up a new window running gdb. If you set a breakpoint on the main function and then run the program with the correct arguments, gdb will split the window in two, with your source code on the bottom and a gdb command line in the top. Emacs intercepts output from gdb and interprets it for you. When you stop at a breakpoint, Emacs will take the file and line number reported by gdb, and display the file contents, with the point of the breakpoint market. As you step through a program, Emacs will follow your pgoress in the source file. The command C-x SPC will place a breakpoint at the current point of the file you are in.

Using gdb under gnu Emacs

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An Introduction To Using GDB Under Emacs

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