Has any one tried to use visual studio for mac for debugging lammps? If so would you be willing to get me started (or at least pointed in the right direction)? I need to massively reduce my debugging time and difficulty.
thanks
matthew
Has any one tried to use visual studio for mac for debugging lammps?
not me.
If so would you be willing to get me started (or at least pointed in the
right direction)? I need to massively reduce my debugging time and
difficulty.
i cannot really help you with your specific request, but here are a few
thoughts on efficient debugging from looking back the last 20+ years:
in my personal experience, it is not the tool that makes for effective
debugging, but practice, experience, and the ability to read and understand
code.
graphical debugging front ends seem to lower the barrier to using a
debugger (and i tried and used quite a few), but once you get over that
barrier they also seem to slow people down. especially for a large and
complex code as LAMMPS with complex data structures and class hierarchies,
i find that GUIs are rarely able to cope.
instead, i can usually track down issues rather quickly with a combination
of, valgrind's memcheck tool, text mode gdb and a few strategically placed
printf()s.
text mode gdb has the advantage, that it can also be used as a poor man's
parallel debugger, through launching it locally in separate xterm windows
via mpirun.
axel.