People often ask me what's wrong with GDB when I say there are no good Linux debuggers. Since I happen to be using it today, here's one reason I often forget to mention: it crashes _constantly_. Today, it has crashed roughly 1 out of every 3 runs of my (non-crashing!) program.
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I have tried all the other front ends I could find - the most usable one I found was QtCreator, but it was mostly unusable as well, due to lots of weird bugs like not being able to display structures properly when they were on the stack or myriad other bizarrenesses.
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In general, I also suspect that "front ends" for GDB are sort of a lost cause, because the performance of them seems to be universally terrible, so I'm afraid that perhaps the conduit to GDB is just too slow to make a nice responsive debugger?
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