CppCon 2018: Jeff Trull “Liberating the Debugging Experience with the GDB Python API”

[@j7gy8b]

2:00 Basic Python for gdb 4:21 Improving confusing stack traces using frame filters and decorators 8:30 Stepping past/through library code to get to the user's own code - an amped up "single step", using libClang 13:22 finding memory pointer loops that cause leaks, using Valgrind's gdbserver and graph_tool 19:33 visualizing the operation of algorithms with PyQt and carefully chosen breakpoints

[@j7gy8b]

Slides: github.com/CppCon/CppCon2018/blob/master/Presentations/liberating_the_debugging_experience_with_the_gdb_python_api/liberating_the_debugging_experience_with_the_gdb_python_api__jeff_trull__cppcon_2018.pdf

[@anthonyrocha8075]

Tried to follow along, but got an error when trying stepu command out : (gdb) stepu Python Exception AST node on line 28

[@bobbymah2682]

Great talk! Thanks

[@SimGunther]

Way to rock the system76 laptop :)

[@kippie80]

But can't stand python! It is FORTRAN to me.