Living in the GDB

Posted by Astryl on July 29, 2011, 2:31 a.m.

Should be a song.

Anyway, I've been spending my week looking at videos like this:

And I've been staring at errors/bugs in Hydra for a week now, and my head is spinning.

So, basically: Hydra is delayed (Nobody cares anyway), GDB is awesome for telling me I'm wrong and I'm officially taking that mini-course about exception handling (After struggling along with archaic C error-handling).

Finally, I'd like to make an official apology to anybody I've treated as inferior/unknowledgeable in this past year, because I obviously don't know as much as I should or else my engine would be damned well working without spilling it's memory-guts all over the OS.

Comments

Josea 13 years, 3 months ago

Working in C is horrible, all the malloc, pointers and segmentation faults make you go insane very fast. GDB and Valgrind saved my life back then.

BP Scraps 13 years, 3 months ago

Quote: Mega
Should be a song.
I literally started singing the title of this blog in the style of Car Wash as soon I saw this title.

Let's forget I said that.

Astryl 13 years, 3 months ago

Quote:
Let's forget I said that.
I'm gonna pay somebody to watch you with a camera now… >:3

Anyway, rather than make a new blog entry:

Finally

I fixed Hydra. After spending a load of time with GDB, I found the source of the segmentation faults; mostly from the old Room Code.

So, with that behind me, I optimized the room update code, and now I'm making a set of tutorials (One for each class that comes with the engine) to show people how to do something with Hydra.

Also, I'm making a game. Nothing more to say.

svf 13 years, 3 months ago

I couldn't understand a single word he said. :\

sirxemic 13 years, 3 months ago

I am not gonna watch that video till the end. The way that guy is presenting is annoying.

So in a nutshell, I want to know: why should *I* use GDB instead of eg. Visual Studio's debugger?

Josea 13 years, 3 months ago

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So in a nutshell, I want to know: why should *I* use GDB instead of eg. Visual Studio's debugger?
I wouldn't recommend it, command-line programs and Windows don't go along very well.

sirxemic 13 years, 3 months ago

Oh pretend I want to use it on Linux then. I actually just want to know what makes GDB so special.

JuurianChi 13 years, 3 months ago

>.>

DesertFox 13 years, 3 months ago

Quote:
I literally started singing the title of this blog in the style of Car Wash as soon I saw this title.

:o Same thing here!

BP Scraps 13 years, 3 months ago

I know right! It just fits so perfectly!

♪♫Livin' in the G-D-B♫♪