Debugging

[Doppie1200]

Hi All,

In winter I'm going to do some programming for Amiga OS.
I know there is gcc for amiga free to use. I have not used gcc very much. Only when I develop for VxWorks.

When I develop software for Windows, VxWorks or a different embedded system there is usually some kind of debugger available which allows me to step trough the sourcecode and examine variables.

Is there someting like that for amiga gcc generated binairies too?

I could also use Hisoft C/C++ which has a debugger available in its IDE as I recall. Unfortunatly I do not know it's C++ capabilities.

Any help is appreciated.

[SamuraiCrow]

GCC has GDB (GNU Debugger) but no IDE.  It is what is used to develop for AmigaOS 4 so I recommend using GCC.  On the downside, the best version of GCC for the 68k processor series Classic Amigas is slow and contains some bugs.

I haven't worked with HiSoft C++ so I can't comment on it except to note that AmigaOS doesn't have object-oriented foundation classes so if you develop in ANSI/ISO C instead of C++ there is no reason to get HiSoft C++.  VBCC is a better option for free and has a freeware GUI available for it on the Aminet archives.

[D00kie]

Hi,

  Check out StormC. It's free if you're going to distribute free software and it's on the AmigaOS DevCD. Okay, okay, it's not the most compatible implementation of a C/C++ compiler, but it has a GUI and a nice editor, plus a decent step debugger that you can set breakpoints on.

  All in all, it's a fairly good IDE.