Yes! Assuming you run it with --tui, otherwise you'll hate yourself forever. It may seem to have some mental overhead at first because you have to type command

Yes! Assuming you run it with --tui, otherwise you'll hate yourself forever. It may seem to have some mental overhead at first because you have to type commands, but it becomes second nature after a while. IMHO, it has far less overhead than debuggers where you have to click everywhere. There's a reason why people don't really bother writing pretty frontends for it. If you use an IDE for Linux development, its debugger actually talks to GDB behind the scene. You can ditch the middle man without trouble. The only thing that DDD really excels at (when it doesn't crash because, uh, long story short, Motif) and you can't get straight from GDB is visual representation of linked structures.