5 ms·

cgdb looks promising. I really, really liked the Turbo Debugger in the 90's. No debugger has offered me the same experience since. It was fast, the text-based w

cgdb looks promising. I really, really liked the Turbo Debugger in the 90's. No debugger has offered me the same experience since. It was fast, the text-based windowed interface allowed efficiently jumping to assembly as well as to the source, view registers, editable hex dumps of memory, view watchpoints etc. gdb is super-powerful but was a bit of a setback interface-wise because everything has to be done on a plain command line. And the GUI-based wrappers around it don't appeal to me much (don't know why, the ones I tried felt somewhat clunky).

pjmlp 14y ago
I rather use DDD. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ But then again, I am an IDE kind of guy.
- jandrese 14y ago
  I want to like DDD, but it has never been stable for me. Annoying it has a tendency to take down my Window Manager or even X.
  - ysangkok 14y ago
    If you can crash X like that, it's obviously an X bug. Imagine if I could crash your HTTP server remotely. Seriously, DDD is pretty stable. People don't like it because it doesn't use Gtk+ or Qt. And the people who use it even if it looks ugly aren't the kind of people who would talk about it, they just use it.
narrator 14y ago
Eclipse on Linux has great C programming support including interactive debugging using the CDT (C development toolkit) plugin. I used it to interactively debug operating system code running in a virtual machine on my Linux box recently and it worked great.
- cabernal 14y ago
  You might be interested in the Eclispe Linux Tools project[0], which integrates a lot of popular Linux profiling and debugging tools with Eclipse. [0]http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/ http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/
emillon 14y ago
There's also gdbtui which is built-in (gdb -tui or "layout next" when in a gdb session) and not too bad to at least view the code and type commands at the same time.

pjmlp 14y ago

I rather use DDD. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ But then again, I am an IDE kind of guy.

jandrese 14y ago
I want to like DDD, but it has never been stable for me. Annoying it has a tendency to take down my Window Manager or even X.
- ysangkok 14y ago
  If you can crash X like that, it's obviously an X bug. Imagine if I could crash your HTTP server remotely. Seriously, DDD is pretty stable. People don't like it because it doesn't use Gtk+ or Qt. And the people who use it even if it looks ugly aren't the kind of people who would talk about it, they just use it.

narrator 14y ago

Eclipse on Linux has great C programming support including interactive debugging using the CDT (C development toolkit) plugin. I used it to interactively debug operating system code running in a virtual machine on my Linux box recently and it worked great.

cabernal 14y ago
You might be interested in the Eclispe Linux Tools project[0], which integrates a lot of popular Linux profiling and debugging tools with Eclipse. [0]http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/ http://www.eclipse.org/linuxtools/

emillon 14y ago

There's also gdbtui which is built-in (gdb -tui or "layout next" when in a gdb session) and not too bad to at least view the code and type commands at the same time.