Re: [boost] OT: Debugger and tools on linux - was: [logging] lots of warnings

From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-10 09:04:59

Bjørn Roald wrote:
> Has anybody on the list tried the SunStudio support for Linux on x86 and 
> its tools support for GCC in addition to Sun CC?  I know the dbx 
> debugger to be very good, in many areas it used to be far superior to MS 
> VisualStudio's debugger.  The GUI was not as nice as VisualStudio but 
> far better than DDD.  Now Sun provide compiler and tools for free if you 
> join SDN (also free I think).  GUI is now Net.Beans (free again) which 
> looks very nice, I have not tried it.
>
> http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/index.jsp
>   

I found this page:  
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/documentation/ss12/mr/READMEs/dbx.html#limitations
It seems to be some limitations with dbx on Linux and with g++ compiled 
binaries.  :-( 

The most serious limitation in my view is:

    * Run-time type information for C++ expressions is not available for
      programs compiled with the g++ compiler.

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Bjørn