tools for C and C++

[mbrown]

I'm fairly new to C, and newer to Linux. I currently do all of my
development on a windows machine using Visual Studio, then use Make to
build the code on Linux. Obviously this deprives me of a lot of
debugging tools. I'm also used to having a variety of tools for
refactoring and unit testing, but these aren't concepts that are
familiar at my company.

Any advice on good tools for refactoring and unit testing C code, and
for debugging on Linux ?

Also, any books on specifically about writing good code in C?
Thanks
Matt Brown

 

[Antoninus Twink]

I'm fairly new to C, and newer to Linux. I currently do all of my
development on a windows machine using Visual Studio, then use Make to
build the code on Linux. Obviously this deprives me of a lot of
debugging tools. I'm also used to having a variety of tools for
refactoring and unit testing, but these aren't concepts that are
familiar at my company.

Any advice on good tools for refactoring and unit testing C code, and
for debugging on Linux ?

For debugging, gdb is the first and last word. It'll take a little while
to get used to it, but once you do it's a real powerhouse.

 

[Richard]

For debugging, gdb is the first and last word. It'll take a little while
to get used to it, but once you do it's a real powerhouse.

I suspect his best bet would be Eclipse. Personally I prefer
emacs/gdb/gud most of the time but only because of my general abhorrence
for Java based IDEs which use up 20 trillion gigabytes.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecl-vscdt/index.html

gives a comparison to VS.

 

[Kenny McCormack]

For debugging, gdb is the first and last word. It'll take a little while
to get used to it, but once you do it's a real powerhouse.

But always keep in mind that nobody here uses debuggers.