5.12. Other Open Source Debuggers

In addition to gdb, there are many other debuggers available to the open source community. Many of these debuggers are built on top of the GNU debugger or they use gdb concepts. Some of these debuggers are introduced in this section. The most popular of these is the ddd debugger. xxgdb is a GUI interface to gdb and many people also use it. The kdbg comes with KDE on Linux. All of these debuggers use the same concepts as used by the gdb debugger.

5.12.1. The kdbg Debugger

KDE debugger comes with KDE desktop development utilities. It is a GUI based upon GNU debugger. You can start it using the kdbg command or from a KDE menu. Using icons in the tool bar or menus, you can open files to be debugged. Once a file is ...

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