NAME
ddd - The Data Display Debugger
SYNOPSIS
ddd [--help] [--gdb] [--dbx] [--ladebug] [--wdb] [--xdb] [--jdb]
[--pydb] [--perl] [--debugger name] [--[r]host
[[username@]hostname]] [--trace] [--version] [--configuration]
[options...] [prog[core|procID]]
but usually just
ddd program
DESCRIPTION
DDD is a graphical front-end for GDB and other command-line debuggers.
Using DDD, you can see what is going on "inside" another program while
it executes--or what another program was doing at the moment it
crashed.
DDD can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of
these) to help you catch bugs in the act:
o Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its
behavior.
o Make your program stop on specified conditions.
o Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.
o Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting
the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.
"Classical" UNIX debuggers such as the GNU debugger (GDB) provide a
command-line interface and a multitude of commands for these and other
debugging purposes. DDD is a comfortable graphical user interface
around an inferior GDB, DBX, Ladebug, XDB, JDB, Python debugger, or
Perl debugger.
DDD is invoked with the shell command ddd. You can open a program to
be debugged using `File->Open Program' (the `Open Program' item in the
`File' menu. You can get online help at any time using the `Help'
menu; for the first steps, try `Help->What Now?'. Quit DDD using
`File->Exit'.
More information on DDD is contained in the DDD Manual. You can read
the text-only version in DDD (via `Help->DDD Reference') or in Emacs
(as Info file). Full-fledged HTML, PostScript, and PDF versions are
available online via the DDD WWW page,
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
OPTIONS
These are the most important options used when starting DDD. All
options may be abbreviated, as long as they are unambiguous; single
dashes may also be used. DDD also understands the usual X options such
as `-display' or `-geometry'; see X(1) for details.
All arguments and options not handled by DDD are passed to the inferior
debugger. To pass an option to the inferior debugger that conflicts
with an X option, or with a DDD option listed here, use the
`--debugger' option, below.
--configuration
Show the DDD configuration settings and exit.
--dbx Run the DBX debugger as inferior debugger.
--debugger name
Invoke the inferior debugger name. This is useful if you have
several debugger versions around, or if the inferior debugger
cannot be invoked as `gdb', `dbx', `xdb', `jdb', `pydb', or
`perl' respectively.
This option can also be used to pass options to the inferior
debugger that would otherwise conflict with DDD options. For
instance, to pass the option `-d directory' to XDB, use:
ddd --debugger "xdb -d directory"
If you use the `--debugger' option, be sure that the type of
inferior debugger is specified as well. That is, use one of the
options `--gdb', `--dbx', `--xdb', `--jdb' `--pydb', or `--perl'
(unless the default setting works fine).
--gdb Run the GDB debugger as inferior debugger.
--help Give a list of frequently used options. Show options of the
inferior debugger as well.
--host [username@]hostname
Invoke the inferior debugger directly on the remote host
hostname. If username is given and the `--login' option is not
used, use username as remote user name.
--jdb Run JDB as inferior debugger.
--ladebug
Run Ladebug as inferior debugger.
--perl Run Perl as inferior debugger.
--pydb Run PYDB as inferior debugger.
--rhost [username@]hostname
Run the inferior debugger interactively on the remote host
hostname. If username is given and the `--login' option is not
used, use username as remote user name.
--trace
Show the interaction between DDD and the inferior debugger on
standard error. This is useful for debugging DDD. If `--trace'
is not specified, this information is written into
`$HOME/.ddd/log', such that you can also do a post-mortem
debugging.
--version
Show the DDD version and exit.
--wdb Run the WDB debugger as inferior debugger.
--xdb Run XDB as inferior debugger.
A full list of options, including important options of the inferior
debugger, can be found in the DDD manual.
SEE ALSO
X(1), gdb(1), dbx(1), wdb(1), xdb(1), perldebug(1)
`ddd' entry in info.
`gdb' entry in info.
Debugging with DDD: User's Guide and Reference Manual, by Andreas
Zeller.
Using GDB: A Guide to the GNU Source-Level Debugger, by Richard M.
Stallman and Roland H. Pesch.
Java Language Debugging, at http://java.sun.com/ (and its mirrors) in
/products/jdk/1.1/debugging/
The Python Language, at http://www.python.org/ and its mirrors.
DDD--A Free Graphical Front-End for UNIX Debuggers, by Andreas Zeller
and Dorothea Luetkehaus, Computer Science Report 95-07, Technische
Universitaet Braunschweig, 1995.
DDD - ein Debugger mit graphischer Datendarstellung, by Dorothea
Luetkehaus, Diploma Thesis, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, 1994.
The DDD FTP site,
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddd
The DDD WWW page,
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
The DDD Mailing List,
ddd@gnu.org
For more information on this list, send a mail to
ddd-request@gnu.org .
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(C) 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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