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What is DDD, anyway?
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The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a common graphical user
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interface to GDB, DBX, and XDB, the popular UNIX debuggers.
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Besides ``usual'' features such as viewing source texts and
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breakpoints, DDD provides a graphical data display, where data
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structures are displayed as graphs. A simple mouse click
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dereferences pointers or reveals structure contents, updated each
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time the program stops. Using DDD, you can reason about your
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application by viewing its data, not just by viewing it execute
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lines of source code.
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Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in C,
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C++, Ada, Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2, or Modula-3; machine-level
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debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint,
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backtrace, and history editors; preferences and settings editors;
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program execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote
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host; on-line manual; interactive help on the Motif user
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interface; GDB/DBX/XDB command-line interface with full editing,
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history, and completion capabilities. DDD has been designed to
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compete with well-known commercial debuggers.
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DDD is free software, protected by the GNU general public license.
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It is actively maintained by its authors, Dorothea Luetkehaus and
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Andreas Zeller at the Technische Universitaet Braunschweig,
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Germany.
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2000-08-17 01:47:24 -04:00
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WWW: ${HOMEPAGE}
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