Re: ddd 3.3.8

[Arnaud Desitter]

Hi,

The best way to make progress would be build from source
on your system ddd 3.3.8, ddd 3.3.1 (the last release by A. Zeller)
and, possibly, ddd 3.1.5  and compare their features.
Then, if they are reproducable, either fix it yourself and post a patch
or fill a bug report on sf.net with all details to reproduce the
problem.

Regards,


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne E. Van Loon Sr." <wevl@pacifier.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.debugging.ddd.bugs
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:55 PM
Subject: ddd 3.3.8


> Dear Folks:
> I used to use ddd 3.1.5 extensively. It came with an old distribution 
> that I used for several years.
> 
> Recently I updated to Slackware 9.1 and downloaded ddd 3.3.8 
> (i686-pc-linux-gnu). I hate to complain, but ddd isn't half of what it 
> used to be. I look at the ddd website, and all kind of wonderful things 
> about ddd.
> 
> In my case, a lot of things don't work anymore or they don't work right. 
> I thought I would mention some of what I have noticed as maybe ddd 
> really does still work but I have something wrong with my setup / system 
> (Athlon, pc, Slackware 9.1, Linux 2.4.22, gcc 3.2.3).
> 
> In the data display:
> 
> 1. You can't drag a display. After it gets placed, that's it. When I 
> attempt to drag a display item, I get the little four directional 
> arrows, but the display will not move.
> 
> 2. I can't delete a display. The Undisplay option is there, it just 
> doesn't do anything.
> 
> 3. I can't expand an array that might be part of a structure using
> "Show  All" in the pop-up menu after right clicking on the array.
> 
> 4. I can't dereference a pointer that might be a member of structure.
> I used to be able to right click on the pointer and then move the cursor 
> to the Display *() in the little popup window. On my system, the
> Display *() is grayed out.
> 
> 5. Set Value doesn't seem to be available, it also is grayed out.
> 
> 
> I recently used ddd to debug some QT code. This may be something that 
> the QT Meta Object Compiler (moc) causes, but I can't set a breakpoint 
> in any file other than the file with the main function. When you attempt 
> to set a breakpoint, it looks like you have set a breakpoint, but ddd 
> will blow right by it when the program runs.
> 
> The only way I could use ddd was to write a little function that I put 
> in the file with my main function and call that function from the file 
> that I wanted to debug in. If I put a breakpoint the the little 
> function, I could single step back into the file that I really wanted to 
> debug.
> 
> I loved the old ddd. I know that it had some memory problems, but it was 
> damned useful. I sure hope there is some simple mistake that will soon 
> be fixed.
> 
> Sincerely
> Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.