What is a good unix alternative to DDD (Data Display Debugger)?

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frankster picture frankster · Jul 30, 2009 · Viewed 26.5k times · Source

I am developing c on linux using vim and debugging using ddd. However I find that ddd performs very poorly at scrolling on this machine so its sometimes very frustrating to use.

I like the way that ddd maps fairly closely to the gdb command set as this means I am free to use gdb commands when I choose, but using gdb itself is not an option as it does not do a great job of displaying the source.

Can anybody suggest a decent alternative to ddd? I am not looking for an IDE, merely a reasonably well implemented gui facade to gdb that is free software.

Answer

Adrian Panasiuk picture Adrian Panasiuk · Jul 30, 2009

KDbg (http://www.kdbg.org/)

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