No, I’m not talking about those half-baked frontends for GDB, that at best only half exposes stuff, and at worst gives you a little tab to type your GDB commands into.
No, I don’t care about 0.0000001% lost performance.
No, I don’t care about macros.
No, I don’t want to spend weeks to learn GDB inside-out, so I don’t have to search online for 15-30 minutes on an AI infested internet every time I want to use it, for each feature I’m using it for that day.
No, I don’t want to hear your anecdote about how much you use it and how fast can it be once you type 10000 wpm.
No, I don’t want to gatekeep Linux from “normies”, by making it as user-unfriendly as possible, so I can keep the Linux community a frat club for slur saying techbros.
What sort of advanced usage you’re after that ‘break’, ‘list’, ‘step’ and ‘bt’ are not enough for you?
Here’s a mnemonic for you straight from Copilot:
🧠 Mnemonic: “Brave Lions Step Back”
Break → Brave
Think of courageously “breaking” into the code at a chosen point.
List → Lions
Lions “survey” their territory, just like list shows you the source lines.
Step → Step
Easy one — you literally “step” through the program line by line.
bt → Back
bt stands for “backtrace,” which shows you the call stack — looking back at how you got here.
Getting the values of given variables.
print variablename