Re: [Gnomesword-developers] development tools

[Karl K. <ka...@kl...>]

Gertjan Francke <gwf...@gm...> writes:
> I would like to do some debugging as it is a good way to get some hands
> on gnomesword. My question is: what tools / software do you use for
> development in GS? Can you give me some help so I can start somewhere.

For debugging, I'm an old-school gdb sort of guy.  (I still have
vaguely useful memories of sdb, and an occasional nightmare about adb.)

I have occasionally tried to use the Emacs/XEmacs interface to gdb,
but it always seems unwieldy and I never stay with it for long.

strace is great for watching syscall streams.  valgrind and friends
have a perverse usefulness that you will have to watch in action in
order to understand.