11 engineers on Hacker News describe using GDB first-hand: 0 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I debugged by tracing both step by step, in two gdb sessions, looking for when behavior diverged. Pure torture”
regret · personal · geophile · 2022-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Although getting a gdb connection to such targets is itself a battle sometimes”
regret · production · thrtythreeforty · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I cannot believe that we use absolutely horrible software like GDB in 2020.”
regret · production · hvasilev · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the array assignment causes gdb to crash in Cygwin. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to overcome that”
regret · personal · agrona · 2012-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“gdb has allowed you to change runtime variable values for the couple of decades that I've been using it.”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · stjohnswarts · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Asking gdb to break when something touches these variables doesn't show up anything.”
neutral · production · qiqitori · 2021-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to drive gdb to inspect a suspect Red Hat 6 "will not fix" GUI component”
neutral · production · thyrsus · 2019-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The target was an high-end (at the time) SoC, so it could run uClinux and we could also have GDB too.”
neutral · production · astrobe_ · 2019-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for years, but just the basic operations...”
neutral · personal · omegote · 2014-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also learned via doing, decompiling small C programs, gdb, and manuals.”
neutral · personal · timtadh · 2014-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“GCC ARM Embedded toolchain, OpenOCD + gdb for debugging and vim, make as 'IDE'. What a relief.”
neutral · production · ijager · 2014-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?