Re: [gnome-love] debugger

[Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>]

On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 21:33 -0600, julio wrote:
> Hi, how are you?
>
> I am new to gnome and I am working on my first bug and fortunately I've 
> received help from many developers, but I'm still not able to fix the 
> bug :( . I have a general question: is there any tool or debugger that 
> you would recommend to keep track of the application state?, I am used 
> to set breakpoints and see variable's content and I know there is gdb 
> but I think that maybe it is more for low level stuff (assembly), or 
> maybe I am wrong and there are features I don't know about. I guess some 
> of you could point out something that could help me with this  :).

You can use plain gdb or any UI built on top of gdb to trace a program.
Nemiver provides an UI for gdb.

In order to see the symbols, install the packages with the debugging
information. For example, Evince (the document viewer) package in Ubuntu
is called 'evince', but there is also one called 'evince-dbg'. You the
latest one.

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Germán Poo-Caamaño
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