[deal.II] 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]

Post by Prashant Mital
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.
--
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

Post by 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