[Qt-creator] Debugging Helper broken in 1.2?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:22:47AM +0300, Patric wrote:
> Maybe it's not the place to ask this, but can you tell me what's also
> reverse debugging option

It's a feature of current development gdb. It lets you step backwards,
so you can undo a 'Step over' or such. Cool stuff, but it's a bit
expensive to set up and it has funny side-effects when using the data
dumpers (aka debugging helpers). That's why I tried to disable support
for it in the 1.2 release, but it looks like I missed in checkbox in the
settings dialog. Sorry for that. Just pretend it is not there ;-)

> for and skip known frames when stepping.

This is useful for single stepping. Single stepping Qt code is usually a
bit annoying as half of the time you walk through "uninteresting" code,
like reference counting or container accesses or such. With this option
checked, Creator compares the top most stack frame with a fixed set of
"uninteresting code" and continues to single-step until some "interesting"
code is met. User code is by definition "interesting".

Someone should start blogging about Debugging with Qt Creator ;-}

Andre'