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Emacs GDB Breakpoints

Most books only give you a once-over-lightly when it comes to GDB, especially GDB breakpoints inside of Emacs. They show you how to set a breakpoint. While that is important, it doesn’t do much to tell a developer why they should use the non-sexy Emacs front end for GDB instead of some GUI. To start with GUIs don’t give you the GDB command line. Here is the situation. CsScintilla is a CopperSpice port of Scintilla … Emacs GDB BreakpointsRead more

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Using Your Core Dumps

So, you read the last post and now know where to find your core dumps, great. Now what? That always seems to be the question, doesn’t it. What good is a core dump? The answer is “They can be really good, but you need tools.” Emacs No matter how much you hate it, no matter how much you think it is from the stone age, no matter how bloated you think it is, install GUI … Using Your Core DumpsRead more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5

Sometimes trying to avoid creating a Debian package is more work than actually creating the package. Before I got deep into coding modifications of Diamond I wanted to get a GUI GDB front end. Yes, I can use Emacs GDB interface and have, but I quasi-suck at the command line. Yes, I would get better over time, but I had used Gede before and it works rather nice. Besides, I’m currently helping on the family … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5Read more