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Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

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alfiedotwtf ◴[15 Nov 24 16:06 UTC] No.42148130[source]▶
Debugger vs printf:

Has anyone found a reliable way to use a debugger when you have a) multi-process b) multi-threaded c) async d) timeouts? I would love to use a debugger but printf and logs “just work”

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1. Mr-Frog ◴[15 Nov 24 19:10 UTC] No.42149876[source]▶
I used GDB to debug contributions to the ION Delay-Tolerant-Networking stack, which is composed of dozens of processes. After some practice it became super easy to attach GDB instances to several running processes and watch the C structs be passed between them.