Data Display Debugger Explained

Data Display Debugger
Developer:	GNU project
Latest Release Version:	3.4.0
Latest Release Date:	^[1]
Operating System:	Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64, UNIX
Genre:	graphical front-end
License:	GNU GPL

Data Display Debugger (GNU DDD) is a graphical user interface (using the Motif toolkit) for command-line debuggers such as GDB,^[2] DBX, JDB, HP Wildebeest Debugger, XDB, the Perl debugger, the Bash debugger, the Python debugger, and the GNU Make debugger.^[3] DDD is part of the GNU Project and distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License.

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 systems, and its usefulness is complemented by many open source plug-ins available for it.

Notes & references

Notes

1. Web site: DDD-3.4.0 Debbugger GUI released. Michael. Eager. May 10, 2023.
2. Book: Matloff . Norman . Salzman . Peter Jay . No Starch Press. 2008 . The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD and Eclipse. 9781593271749.
3. Web site: DDD - Data Display Debugger . GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) . 5 May 2011 . December 8, 2012.

See also

• Debugger front-end
• KDbg, a KDE debugger front-end
• ups (debugger)

External links

• Source code