Re: Grumble...
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>
I never cared much for it, but now that I have to use Visual
Studios... The Microsoft debugger has to be the worst I've seen
to date.
How so? It's about the best there is.
Except that it doesn't offer anyway of seeing most of the
information you need. In my experience, it almost always shows
the value when you want the address, and vice versa.
I don't get this. When it shows an address, there is a + sign, you click on
it and get the value. Actually you don't even have to click, just hower the
mouse. And what is shown s the "natural" info for the object type. What for
me makes sense most of the time.
And when it's not what I'm interested, just type/copy the thing in the watch
window with * or &. Or whatever other expression.
As for the copy/paste problems mentioned by someone else, with all that
tooltip-shown stuff in the context menu there is both "copy value" and "copy
expression". The latter with all the ton of () and casts if you traveled
deep on + signs and happen to be on some base class or something.
What I don't get at all, how gdb, that does not show any information at all
without you type in the p command is better? Even if I have to type because
the default is not good enough, it at least stays around in the watch
window, for the next step, or the next session...