Re: opinion on SimpleProgramDebugger as a LibO debug tool
Hi, On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:44:10PM +0200, Tommy ba...@quipo.it wrote: I'll try to be clearer: is this SimpleProgramDebugger a Windows alternative to Valgrind or other Linux tools that people use to do profiling, backtraces etc. etc. ? From the http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/simple_program_debugger.html description, it seems (to me) that it's more similar to process monitor (and Linux's strace tool) that monitors syscalls. This is useful sometimes, but in most cases it's not what we're searching for. I have no experience at all with Linux and I don't have enough spare time to learn it, so I wonder if this Windows tool may be used by Windows users like me to obtain the same results as Linux users do with Valgrind. if yes, will the developers be able to interpret SimpleProgramDebugger's output like they already do with Valgrind? To me, the most useful input from users to a step by step description of the problem, so that I can reproduce myself. On Windows, this means then I can debug the problem myself using Visual Studio's debugger. I didn't have to deal with Windows-specific memory corruption issues yet, though previously it was reported that DrMemory (http://www.drmemory.org/) does a pretty good job at it. Best, Miklos signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: opinion on SimpleProgramDebugger as a LibO debug tool
Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Tommy ba...@quipo.it wrote: I stumbled upon this freeware application and I wonder if it may help doing backtraces or profiling under Window. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/simple_program_debugger.html unfortunately I have no experience to judge if the output of this software may be useful or not for QA and developers. so, please, give it a try and report if useful or useless. From a developer's point of view, we already require Visual Studio on Windows for building, and it has a debugger built in already. I understand if -- for QA purposes, when you don't set up a build environment -- other debuggers are useful, but for a developer, the VS debugger is already there, so there is little point in experimenting with other debuggers. Unless the VS debugger doesn't fulfill our requirements (but it does mine). Miklos signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Re: opinion on SimpleProgramDebugger as a LibO debug tool
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:39:19 +0200, Miklos Vajna vmik...@collabora.co.uk wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Tommy ba...@quipo.it wrote: I stumbled upon this freeware application and I wonder if it may help doing backtraces or profiling under Window. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/simple_program_debugger.html unfortunately I have no experience to judge if the output of this software may be useful or not for QA and developers. so, please, give it a try and report if useful or useless. ... snip ... I understand if -- for QA purposes, when you don't set up a build environment -- other debuggers are useful, for a developer, the VS debugger is already there, so there is little point in experimenting with other debuggers. Miklos I'll try to be clearer: is this SimpleProgramDebugger a Windows alternative to Valgrind or other Linux tools that people use to do profiling, backtraces etc. etc. ? I have no experience at all with Linux and I don't have enough spare time to learn it, so I wonder if this Windows tool may be used by Windows users like me to obtain the same results as Linux users do with Valgrind. if yes, will the developers be able to interpret SimpleProgramDebugger's output like they already do with Valgrind? ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
opinion on SimpleProgramDebugger as a LibO debug tool
I stumbled upon this freeware application and I wonder if it may help doing backtraces or profiling under Window. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/simple_program_debugger.html unfortunately I have no experience to judge if the output of this software may be useful or not for QA and developers. so, please, give it a try and report if useful or useless. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
