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CLion uses lldb.

I wrote https://github.com/daym/idea-native2-debugger as a stop-gap. It uses gdb and works in IntelliJ IDEA Community edition. Setting it up the first time is kinda weird since you need to add a new run/debug configuration "Native2Debugger". I could not figure out how to hook this directly into the existing run configuration that you use to run your program to begin with. Otherwise, I like how it turned out.

If you want a standalone frontend, https://github.com/epasveer/seer is extremely good.

And emacs has gdb integration. By now I tried it, and... I guess it's better than nothing.

(Shameless plug for my frontend to gdb --> https://github.com/epasveer/seer )

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

https://github.com/hugsy/gef

If you are on Linux, install GEF and be happy.

If you are in linux, I recomend none of them (haha) because you should get more used to GDB a little bit. You just need to install some good visualizers likes GEF, for example.

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