[Qt-creator] Open Source debugger ZeroBUGS

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Thu Aug 23 20:37:59 CEST 2012



23.08.2012, 22:36, "Peter Kümmel" <syntheticpp at gmx.net>:
> On 23.08.2012 20:05, André Pönitz wrote:
>
>>  On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:16:25PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>>>  While reading the LLDB thread I had the idea to
>>>  mention here that ZeroBUGS was open sourced last year:
>>>        http://www.zerobugs.org/
>>>
>>>  It's a one-man-show, so the code base couldn't be gigantic.
>>>  History of this project could be read in the blog post.
>>     "ZeroBUGS is a visual debugger for Linux, a project that
>>      ate up all of my spare time between 2004 and 2008."
>>
>>  Four or five years of "all spare time" can be quite a bit.
>>  And the result is something that supposedly runs on Linux
>>  (which I couldn't verify, since my distro doesn't ship
>>  the packages it depends on...)
>
> Yes, seems development is stalled.
>
>>>  It's interesting to see that you don't need hundreds
>>>  of mean-years to write a debugger from scratch.
>>  Nobody mentioned hundred man-years. But having something
>>  usable, cross-platform takes a while.
>
> I only had gdb and LLVM in mind: gdb is several decades old
> and LLDB is developed by Apple.

pathdb [1] also.

[1] https://github.com/path64/debugger

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Regards,
Konstantin



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