So I was just doing a little archive searching, maybe people have asked this question, but it seems that no one has ever answered. Has anyone successfully used a debugger (gdb, ddd, whatever) to debug pd and/or objects before?
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So I was just doing a little archive searching, maybe people have asked this question, but it seems that no one has ever answered. Has anyone successfully used a debugger (gdb, ddd, whatever) to debug pd and/or objects before?
yes. Just change the makefile to use -g in the CFLAGS, so that you can get line numbers and variable names when running gdb. (In Impd this is now a default)
I successfully used GDB to debug Pd/Impd, Ruby-for-Pd (aka gridflow.pd_linux), Ruby (libruby.so), the actual GridFlow (I mean the plugin for Ruby), and all of them together all at once. I can tell you GDB can handle some complex situations (except in cases of stackpointer smashing...).
DDD is actually a GUI frontend to GDB, and actually has a GDB prompt inside of it. It depends on a Motif-compatible GUI library.
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