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Since gdb is getting onerous to work with on a Mac these days (at least I feel like I am fighting uphill against Apple), I've started to play around with lldb.
Is there an equivalent mode to gdb -tui that shows a nice, persistent view of the source and where you are in it when running lldb standalone from the command line? Obviously, in Xcode, there is such a display, but I deploy most of my code to Linux boxes eventually and would prefer to use the same development environment on both platforms (i.e., vim, Makefiles, autotools, etc.).
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You can also expand the regsiters by register class: I'd like to know how to resize the various windows. If you resize the terminal, the size of the stack view pane seems to remain fixed, so the symbol names always end up truncated.
Both GDB and LLDB are of course excellent debuggers without doubt. GDB is debugger part of the GNU project created to work along the GNU compiler. LLDB is debugger part of the LLVM project created to work along LLVM compiler. The majority of the commands are the same.
The GDB Text User Interface, TUI in short, is a terminal interface which uses the curses library to show the source file, the assembly output, the program registers and GDB commands in separate text windows. The TUI is enabled by invoking GDB using either `gdbtui' or `gdb -tui' .
In top of tree svn source lldb there's a very new command line GUI mode that's been added by Greg Clayton. It's pretty neat with separate windows for the source, local variables, stack, threads, registers, etc. No console window yet. It's pretty cool. See http://lldb.llvm.org/build.html for how to build lldb from source if you'd like to check it out. To enter the GUI mode, just type gui from the lldb command line when you're debugging.
UPDATE: this gui feature is included in the lldb that ships in Xcode 6 and later. It's a nights-and-weekends side project that isn't seeing a lot of active development right now but give it a try.
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