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April 04, 2007 Request: add a flag to get ddbg_gdb behavior | ||||
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Renaming the exe to get different behavior is a neat trick, and I know it is relatively common in the Unix world. It makes sense there because symlinks are rock solid. However, in Windows it means I have to make a copy of the exe every time I upgrade ddbg. I'm not worried about the tiny bit of disk space the extra copy uses, but just the annoyance factor. Anyway, I see no real advantage to typing 'ddbg_gdb' vs 'ddbg -gdb'. I think there was also one person who accidentally re-named ddbg as ddgb_dbg or something like that, and couldn't figure out why the integration with Code::Blocks wasn't working. If that were a flag the program could raise an error saying '-dbg is not a recognized flag'. But it would be a bad idea to raise an error about the program name itself not being what you expected. --bb |
April 05, 2007 Re: Request: add a flag to get ddbg_gdb behavior | ||||
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Posted in reply to Bill Baxter | i agree.
actually i was getting annoyed by this myself, but apparently not
annoyed enough to induce the idea to change it ;)
since CB won't let you specify command line options for the debugger
atm, i'll add this as a command as well.
it'll be in the next release.
Bill Baxter wrote:
> Renaming the exe to get different behavior is a neat trick, and I know it is relatively common in the Unix world. It makes sense there because symlinks are rock solid. However, in Windows it means I have to make a copy of the exe every time I upgrade ddbg. I'm not worried about the tiny bit of disk space the extra copy uses, but just the annoyance factor. Anyway, I see no real advantage to typing 'ddbg_gdb' vs 'ddbg -gdb'.
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> I think there was also one person who accidentally re-named ddbg as ddgb_dbg or something like that, and couldn't figure out why the integration with Code::Blocks wasn't working. If that were a flag the program could raise an error saying '-dbg is not a recognized flag'. But it would be a bad idea to raise an error about the program name itself not being what you expected.
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> --bb
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April 06, 2007 Re: Request: add a flag to get ddbg_gdb behavior | ||||
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Posted in reply to Jascha Wetzel | Jascha Wetzel wrote:
> i agree.
> actually i was getting annoyed by this myself, but apparently not
> annoyed enough to induce the idea to change it ;)
> since CB won't let you specify command line options for the debugger
> atm, i'll add this as a command as well.
> it'll be in the next release.
Cool. Can you make a tiny .bat file wrapper for ddbg that uses the flag?
Like
-----ddbg_gdb.bat---
@ddbg -gdb %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
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