Debug faster with gdb layouts (TUI)

Gdb is a sound base but TUI is a joke compared to debugging in jetbrains or vscode.

This is a godsend, thank you!

Really not much information in this video but just introducing a bit the feature

It is better to use GDB inside EMACS with the full 6 viewports.

This is amazing! Had no idea this was a feature and I've been painfully using GDB this entire semester....

This is so good! Thank you so much!

I see that you can also see the values stored in the registers live. Is it possible to have all 3 shown at once? C code, Assembly, and register values?

thank you for gdb demo.

I always respected my professors at university and learned many things from them, but I think I have learned even more from you. Thank you professor and please keep on your valuable online courses.

Instead of "b main" & "r" you could just do "start".
Also, instead of "layout next" use "layout src" (or whatever layout name you want).

do you know if there's a layout gdb for java programs?

Does this command works in putty session? What to do if it doesn't?

I have this "m68k-elf-gdb.exe" gdb client wich i use to debug 68k assembly, but it does not support tui....i've been trying to recompile it whit added support with no luck, any idea on how to enable tui in this version???

thanks a lot!!!!

You are a hero !

is there a way for me to display stack at every step? or have a window dedicated to stack? instead of typing bt full every step. thanks for the video!

Not having known about this before, you have just revolutionized my debugging experience!

wow. where have you been all my life ...

Cool. I didn't know about that. Been coding for 30 years and still learning. That's why I like your channel.

Hi, tnx 4 ur awesome tutorials. Can u make a tutorial on how to build an ISO imagine of a Linux kernel from Linux source code that can actually be used in virtualbox

Linux has still in olden days debugging techniques, this is seem to be tedious debugging as well less devolper friendly

Would you please make a video about Math in embedded systems and btw very helpful videos keep going

i was aware of tui, but not of changing layouts.
and the nexti,stepi could be huge!

bruuhh arm-aebi-none-gdb 2020 doesnt support tui.

Would be nice to have some tool to visualize and compare big arrays on GDB

I used this trick when doing my bomblab assignment. Helps so freaking much.
A big tip here is also that control+L refreshes the TUI, as it often gets weirdly "corrupted" and needs often refreshing.

I usually just press ctrl-x-a

VIM, GCC, GDB
The rest is unnecessary :)

There are extensions to gdb like pwndbg or peda that make it much more friendly.

Fantastic!

Hi Jacob, can you do tutorial, maybe share some tweaks on how to better understand other people's code, especially when it's a big project with a lot of .c and .h files? Thanks.

don't apologize that it was a short video, everyone who clicks on the video sees it before they click ;)

Short AND helpful. :)

Can you do a tutorial about Radare2?

Thank You for demonstrating the TUI in GDB. This is going to be Helpful.

Nice video and happy new year to all fellow C programmers!

I think it would be great if you made a discord server. Just for people to share and learn from others and it would be easier to help people.

Hi Jacob. How did you split these two views: C and Assembler ?

its gdb time