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the GNU debugger

the LLVM project's debugger

comes with a terminal 'GUI'
(invoked with command gui inside lldb)

• records program state over time
• replay & debug same recording many times
• reverse execution
• chaos mode for catching intermittent bugs
• claims to be faster and more memory efficient than GDB

does also provide record & replay debugging like rr (here called time travel debugging)

• debugging of DLL and EXE files
• UI with symbol view, thread view, source code view, dynamic stack view, memory map
• built-in assembler, decompiler
• supports executable patching

template metaprogramming debugger

part of Metashell, an iteractive template metaprogramming shell

• runs in the command line
• split screen with source code window
• shows break points and current instruction
• install on Ubuntu/Debian/WSL: sudo apt install -y cgdb

• browser-based frontend for GDB
• install via pip: sudo pip install gdbgui

• official GNU debugger frontend
• The UI is a bit old-fashioned, but it is actually quite usable if you spend some time with it.
• install on Ubuntu/Debian/WSL: sudo apt install -y ddd

debugging with GDB in Microsoft Visual Studio

relatively new Qt-based GUI frontent for GDB