I mostly only use gdb on crashes, otherwise I rely on unit tests and logical analysis.
As for text editor, I use Kate. Regards Antoine. Le 15/06/2020 à 17:01, Maarten Breddels a écrit : > Thanks, that was it (ran the wrong history command). That running command > should have given a hint :) > > Can I ask what people here use for debugging/editor? I'm settling on > vscode, and using bare gdb for debugging. > > cheers, > > Maarten > > > > > Op ma 15 jun. 2020 om 16:47 schreef Francois Saint-Jacques < > fsaintjacq...@gmail.com>: > >> As Antoine said, debug mode is probably the most important >> configuration. You can also try the `relwithdebinfo` if you're trying >> to debug the optimized code. I'd also add the following: >> >> 1. Building out of conda provides a much better integration with gdb >> and the system's libstdc++ due to the pretty printers for common >> container classes. This may download a lot of source packages. >> 2. Sometimes, you have to let the test run and fail once, then set a >> breakpoint such that gdb will get the sources by looking at the loaded >> shared libraries. >> >> François >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:38 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi Maarten, >>> >>> You should build in debug mode, i.e. pass -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Antoine. >>> >>> >>> Le 15/06/2020 à 16:35, Maarten Breddels a écrit : >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I have trouble getting gdb working with a test suite. >>>> Running e.g.: >>>> $ gdb ./release/arrow-compute-scalar-test >>>> I can't set a breakpoint on e.g. >>>> arrow::compute::internal::TransformAsciiUpper in >>>> arrow/compute/kernels/scalar_string.cc. >>>> Tab completion on arrow::compute::int<tab> give no tab completion, >> because >>>> I assume this is not exported (although the symbol is visible using nm >>>> path/to/libarrow.so.100). >>>> Is there an easy (or hard?) way to get a breakpoint there, and what >> might >>>> be the reason I cannot put a breakpoint at TransformAsciiUpper. >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> >>>> Maarten Breddels >>>> >> >
