Top 15 C++ Debugging Projects

• x64dbg

  32 43,128 9.1 C++

  An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

  

Project mention: we need a 2015E revival. | /r/oldrobloxrevivals | 2023-12-07

• rr

  101 8,621 9.6 C++

  Record and Replay Framework

  

Project mention: Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18

I think this tool must share a lot techniques and use cases with rr. I wonder how it compares in various aspects.

https://rr-project.org/

rr "sells" as a "reversible debugger", but it obviously needs the determinism for its record and replay to work, and AFAIK it employs similar techniques regarding system call interception and serializing on a single CPU. The reversible debugger aspect is built on periodic snapshotting on top of it and replaying from those snapshots, AFAIK. They package it in a gdb compatible interface.

Hermit also lists record/replay as a motivation, although it doesn't list reversible debugging in general.

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• ScyllaHide

  1 3,202 3.3 C++

  Advanced usermode anti-anti-debugger. Forked from https://bitbucket.org/NtQuery/scyllahide

  

• dbg-macro

  3 2,836 5.2 C++

  A dbg(…) macro for C++

Project mention: C++ Game Utility Libraries: for Game Dev Rustaceans | dev.to | 2024-03-13

GitHub repo: sharkdp/dbg-macro

• seer

  60 1,998 9.1 C++

  Seer - a gui frontend to gdb

Project mention: Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-05

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.

• HyperHide

  1 1,071 4.8 C++

  Hypervisor based anti anti debug plugin for x64dbg

• ttddbg

  2 538 4.6 C++

  Time Travel Debugging IDA plugin

  

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• cpptrace

  2 414 9.7 C++

  Simple, portable, and self-contained stacktrace library for C++11 and newer

Project mention: CppTrace – Simple, portable, and self-contained stacktrace library for C++11 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-07

• opencl-intercept-layer

  9 292 7.7 C++

  Intercept Layer for Debugging and Analyzing OpenCL Applications

  

• BsodSurvivor

  4 168 3.1 C++

  This project aims to facilitate debugging a kernel driver in windows by adding support for a code change on the fly without reboot/unload, and more!

• lldb-mi

  11 148 4.6 C++

  LLDB's machine interface driver

  

Project mention: My Personal Serverless Rust Developer Experience. It’s Better Than You Think | dev.to | 2024-02-11

I'm on the record of loving the VSCode experience with Rust. And I do think that it's amazing that a "non-IDE" can feel so much like an IDE. However, I've recently pivoted off of that stance. I know it's still in EAP, but Rust Rover gives me all of the things that I get from VSCode plus an easier integration with LLDB.

• CpuidSpoofer

  2 74 0.0 C++

  x64dbg plugin for simple spoofing of CPUID instruction behavior

• cppguard

  1 39 6.3 C++

  C++ developer tool for detecting deadlocks

Project mention: CppGuard: C/C++ developer tool for detecting deadlocks | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-13

• Gymbo

  2 34 8.8 C++

  gradient-based symbolic execution engine implemented from scratch

Project mention: [P] Let's Debug Your Neural Network: Gradient-based Symbolic Execution for NN | /r/MachineLearning | 2023-12-04

I have developed Gymbo, a proof of concept for a Gradient-based Symbolic Execution Engine implemented from scratch.

• clutchlog

  1 14 2.3 C++

  C++ "spatial" logging system which targets versatile, (de)clutchable, _debugging_, in a single header.

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