Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • idea-native2-debugger

    IntelliJ IDEA cross-aware remote-aware debugger for native executables

  • 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.

  • seer

    Seer - a gui frontend to gdb

  • 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.

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  • gef

    GEF (GDB Enhanced Features) - a modern experience for GDB with advanced debugging capabilities for exploit devs & reverse engineers on Linux

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

    https://github.com/hugsy/gef

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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