[Qt-creator] Problems with debugger helper

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:51:05PM +0200, Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have lots of problems trying to use the debugger helper, on my three
> computers:
> 
>  - One under windows XP, with mingw TDB (gcc 4.3), QT 4.5.2, QTCreator
> 1.2.1. I do not use admin privileges. gdb outputs messages like "access
> denied to process ..." and qtcreator raises a "debugger not working" dialog.

I am not sure 1.2.1 has been tested/shipped with mingw 4.3. 
 
>  - One with WinXP, all same versions, but with admin privileges. Then the
> helper option is automatically and silently turned off each time I start
> debugging.

That sounds like 1.2.0 behaviour. Are you sure this is a 1.2.1
installation?
 
>  - One under debian unstable, AMD64. I use QT 4.5.2 and QTCreator 1.2.1. The
> option stays checked and I have no error dialog. But when I try to watch a
> class with helper option turned on, gdb keeps outputting watch info
> continuously, QtCreator becomes quite slow, and the watches do not refresh
> properly (no class info is displayed). Without the helper, everything works
> fine.

There have been situations in 1.2.1 where such an infinite loop indeed
happened. This has been fixed in 1.2.90.

Andre'