A test session with the current kdevelop

[Vladimir Prus]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 00:53, Tommaso Massimi wrote:

> 3) When in debug mode, I can only  see a few of the "icons/buttons" on
> the bottom of the screen (I have only "Application diff Messages
> Findinfile Replace konsole valgrind Security");
> in the bottom-right of the screen I have the status bar.
>
> If I press one of these buttons, the line of icons move up of a few
> pixel and a second line of icons appears, with the function
> "breakpoint ctags problem frame stack disassemble gdb".
>
> I don't know if it is normal behavoiur or if it is related to my
> strange display resolution (1200x800), but when debugging I'd like to
> see the breakpoint, gdb and frame stack icons.

I saw something like that too. Looks like KMDI bug :-(

> 4) Debugging a multithread task, a popup window "GDB exited
> abnormally" comes up
> (I already see this message in another mail in tis mail list, but
> without details)

This message means gdb crashed.

> This is the last part of the gdb window, as required by the popup window:
>
> (gdb) next
> Stopped due to shared library event
> Current language:  auto; currently c
> (gdb) backtrace
> Variable "mode" is not available.
> Could not find the frame base for "dieWerror(int)".

And this means gdb had trouble unrolling the stack.


> this is my gdb version:
>
> [tom1 at tom_lap testlog]$ gdb -v
> GNU gdb 6.3-8mdv2007.0 (Mandriva Linux release 2007.0)

Ooh! That's very old gdb, no wonder it's having trouble.

>
> Without debugging the task runs with no trouble.
>
> 5) If I select some line in the GDB window (as the line I have just
> copied in this mail), in menu->edit the menu item "copy" is grayed
> while the item "paste" is active.
> It's quite strange, I think they should be reverted.

I don't think GDB window is related to "copy/paste" menu actions at all -- 
those are for text editor only.

- Volodya