Re: ddd Problems --- Again

On 06/24/2015 12:10 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> On 06/16/2015 05:38 PM, Fred Krogh wrote:
>> I'm a heavy user of ddd, and until today it has been working better 
>> than ever.  Now all of sudden if
>> I set a breakpoint several levels down, ddd hangs.  This has happened 
>> before and the only solution
>> that seemed to work was to set a breakpoint at an earlier subroutine 
>> call then step through the call
>> and then continue onto the desired breakpointl.  As best I can recall 
>> this just started working
>> again and then broke today. The problem is still there if I delete 
>> ~/.ddd/init.  I did give a look
>> into the insight alternative, and it does not work with gentoo 
>> packages (either for me or for one
>> other gentoo user).  Perhaps someone has an idea?
>
> This sounds more like a gdb issue than one in ddd.  Can you reproduce
> the problem running gdb from the command line?
>
> If it is a gdb problem, try asking on the gdb mailing list.
> Be sure to give a complete description of the problem, including
> the system you are running on, what compiler and version of gdb
> you are using, and all gdb commands and messages.
>
Thanks for the thoughts.  I had checked that gdb worked just fine before 
posting the above.  After setting the extra breakpoints for awhile, the 
problem mysteriously disappeared.  I can live with that!