Why would someone debug a Linux program using Microsoft Visual Studio?
From our experience gained during many years of work in software companies, it turns out that such situation is quite frequent nowadays. Let’s imagine a company which is developing their product in C++ and they are porting it from Windows to Linux. Or maybe they are developing a new multiplatform product. Usually the developers work on Windows most of the time, and Visual Studio is already the standard development platform on this system in that company. Linux versions are being built from common source code base and tested separately. However, annoying Linux-only bugs crawl in, and someone has to deal with them. It consumes a lot more time than fixing regular bugs which are reproducible on Windows. That is because a lot of unfavorable circumstances arise. Developers are accustomed to Visual Studio UI and need to change their habits to work effectively with another debugger. Typical free debugger GUIs for Linux have limited capabilities and don’t utilise the full power of GDB. Not alwa
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