Data Display Debugger (GNU DDD) is a
graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows user (computing), users to human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through Graphics, graphical icon (computing), icons and visual indicators such ...
(using the
Motif toolkit) for command-line debuggers such as
GDB,
DBX dbx or DBX may refer to:
* dbx (debugger), a Unix source-level debugger
* dbx (company), a professional audio recording equipment company
** dbx (noise reduction), a noise reduction system invented by dbx, Inc.
* .dbx, the file extension for Micros ...
, JDB, HP Wildebeest Debugger,
XDB, the
Perl
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Perl was developed ...
debugger, the
Bash debugger, the
Python debugger, and the
GNU Make debugger.
DDD is part of the
GNU Project
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and distributed as
free software
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under the
GNU General Public License
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.
Technical details
DDD has
GUI front-end features such as viewing source texts and its interactive graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs.
DDD is used primarily on
Unix
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systems, and its usefulness is complemented by many open source plug-ins available for it.
Notes & references
References
Notes
See also
* Debugger front-end
A debugger is a computer program used to software testing, test and debugging, debug other programs (the "target" programs). Common features of debuggers include the ability to run or halt the target program using breakpoints, stepping (debuggin ...
* KDbg, a KDE
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debugger front-end
* ups (debugger) Ups is an open source source-level debugger developed in the late 1980s for Unix and Unix-like systems, originally developed at the University of Kent by Mark Russell. It supports C and C++, and Fortran on some platforms. The last beta release ...
External links
Source code
Debuggers
GNU Project software
Unix programming tools
Software that uses Motif (software)
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