KDbg is a graphical interface to GDB, the GNU Debugger. It provides an alternative to working directly with GDB’s command-line interface, making common debugging operations accessible through menus, keyboard shortcuts and dedicated panels.
The application is designed for the KDE desktop environment, with support for KDE Frameworks 6 as well as the older Frameworks 5. It can be used to debug programs regardless of whether they were developed with KDE or Qt.
KDbg is particularly useful for examining variables and navigating through source code. It presents program state in a structured form, helping developers follow execution and investigate unexpected behaviour.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Inspect variables and data structures using an expandable tree view.
- Display selected members of compound data types without requiring users to expand the entire structure.
- Recognise Qt data types such as QString and display their values appropriately.
- Set conditional breakpoints and enable, disable or remove existing breakpoints.
- Control execution using keyboard shortcuts for stepping, continuing and finishing functions.
- Attach to running processes or analyse core dumps produced by crashed applications.
- Inspect stack frames, local variables, watched expressions and thread information.
- Display source code and associated machine instructions to help investigate low-level behaviour.
- Configure command-line arguments and environment variables for the program being debugged.
Website: www.kdbg.org
Support: Manual, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Johannes Sixt and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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