What Good Linux Debuggers Are There?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday July 31, 2002 @10:12AM from the or...-working-around-the-gdb-shortcommings dept.

David Weekly asks: "I'm programming for a small software company that's got a fair bit of C++ code; we've been using gdb whilst on Linux, but have been a little frustrated by its shortcomings with multithreaded applications and its fumbling multiple inheritance issues. I poked around on the Net and, other than gdb, I was only able to find Etnus' TotalView as a modern, actively-developed Linux debugger. Are there really only two Linux debuggers (that one can take seriously)? How, for instance, do folks who code up Apache modules test them in multithreaded mode? (i.e., not just using '-X'.) I'd love to hear answers more substantive than 'use printf()' and/or 'just use ____, my favorite gdb frontend'."

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Dynamic Display Debugger by zuvembi · 2002-07-31 10:57 · Score: 1, Redundant

mmmm DDD is the bomb as far as I'm concerned. It's a front-end you can attach to multiple debuggers. Check it out, it's really nice.
tkgdb by norwoodites · 2002-07-31 10:59 · Score: 1, Redundant

download gdb source and compile it with tk support, it works great.