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

[William Pursell]

On 8 Apr, 00:54, [e-mail] wrote:

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

For unit testing, try check and cunit. Check works very well
with the autotools, but it is (fairly) non-trivial to become
proficient with the autotools. If you can get through the
initial learning phase, you may at least stop cursing them even
if you never come to love them.

You will get better results in a Linux group, though, and
I would advise you to ask your question there.

[Antoninus Twink]

On 7 Apr 2008 at 23:54, mb****@arete.com wrote:

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]

Antoninus Twink <no****@nospam.invalidwrites:

On 7 Apr 2008 at 23:54, mb****@arete.com wrote:

>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.

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/developerwork...cdt/index.html

gives a comparison to VS.

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <sl*******************@nospam.invalid>,
Antoninus Twink <no****@nospam.invalidwrote:

>On 7 Apr 2008 at 23:54, mb****@arete.com wrote:

>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.

But always keep in mind that nobody here uses debuggers.

[copx]

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

[snip]

There are only two reason why I boot into Linux:

1. Porting software

2. Valgrind

Valgrind is the best thing since sliced bread when it comes to debugging C
software. It detects all those nasty memory management bugs: invalid
reads/writes, leaks, etc. This tool is so useful because it is hard to
detect those bugs otherwise. If your program crashes randomly you are
probably corrupting the memory somewhere, the easiest way to find the cause
is valgrind.