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DDD -- A Free Graphical Front-End for UNIX Debuggers (1995)
| Venue: | ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES |
| Citations: | 34 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Zeller95ddd--,
author = {Andreas Zeller and Dorothea Lütkehaus},
title = {DDD -- A Free Graphical Front-End for UNIX Debuggers},
journal = {ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES},
year = {1995},
volume = {31}
}
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Abstract
The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a novel graphical user interface to GDB and DBX, the popular UNIX debuggers. Besides "usual" features such as viewing source texts and breakpoints, DDD provides a graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs. A simple mouse click dereferences pointers or reveals structure contents. Complex data structures can be explored incrementally and interactively, using automatic layout if preferred. Each time the program stops, the data display reflects the current variable values. DDD has been designed to compete with well-known commercial debuggers; however, it is free software, protected by the GNU general public license. In this paper, we give a quick presentation of DDD and describe its architecture and basic functionality from a technical point of view.
Keyphrases
free graphical front-end unix debugger program stop novel graphical user interface popular unix debugger quick presentation source text technical point basic functionality data display debugger current variable value well-known commercial debugger usual feature complex data structure reveals structure content free software simple mouse click automatic layout data structure gnu general public license data display graphical data display
