Which Debugger do you use with deal.ii?

[Prashant Mital]

Hello everyone, 

I was just wondering what some popular choices of debuggers are that people are using with deal.ii? I have been trying to use the Eclipse CDT debugger but for some reason it appears that it doesn't work well with dealii (breakpoints etc don't work, I have a prior post regarding this). So far I am stuck with debugging using print statements which is getting really cumbersome and time consuming as the code becomes more involved. 

Thanks,

Prashant

Graduate Student

[Timo Heister]

> I was just wondering what some popular choices of debuggers are that people
> are using with deal.ii? I have been trying to use the Eclipse CDT debugger
> but for some reason it appears that it doesn't work well with dealii
> (breakpoints etc don't work, I have a prior post regarding this).

Eclipse works pretty well for most of us. See
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~bangerth/videos.676.25.html

I am quite happy with debugging in QtCreator.

Both of them use gdb in the background, so maybe you should try if gdb
is working correctly first.



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Timo Heister
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/

[Bruno Turcksin]

Prashant,

I know people successfully use the Eclipse debugger in linux. I don't know if the mac version is different. Personally, I use gdb and it works pretty well.

Best,

Bruno