radare2 VS gef

radare2 - A portable reversing framework.

There is also GEF, which is widely used by the reverse engineering and CTF community.

https://github.com/hugsy/gef

https://github.com/hugsy/gef, https://hugsy.github.io/gef/, https://hugsy.github.io/gef/commands/context/ ("Values in red indicate that this register has had its value changed since the last time execution stopped.")

The attached debugger is not just raw GDB but is using https://hugsy.github.io/gef/ to make debugging less of a pain. It's still not perfect but helps plenty already.

I still struggle with GDB but my excuse is that I seldom use it.

When I was studying reverse engineering though, I came across a really cool kit (which I've yet to find an alternative for lldb, which would be nice given: rust)

I'd recommend checking it out, if for no other reason than it makes a lot of things really obvious (like watching what value lives in which register).

https://github.com/hugsy/gef

LLDB's closest alternative to this is called Venom, but it's not the same at all. https://github.com/ovh/venom

Using vanilla GDB is painful. As a bit of a shameless plug I recommend you check out GEF[1]. It's a large python script that extends GDB to make it a lot better to use. Notably it shows a lot of the state automatically every time the inferior stops. It's oriented around reversing and exploit development, but it definitely doesn't have to be used that way.

[1] https://github.com/hugsy/gef

GEF - GDB plugin.

The problem with console gdb is that its default settings suck. I have this config, first line switches 64/32 bit mode. Yours is 32. File goes to ~/.gdbinit. I won't claim to have best config ever, google for it if you want to. There's also https://github.com/hugsy/gef