ddd (1)

ddd

[\|--help\|] [\|--gdb\|] [\|--dbx\|] [\|--ladebug\|] [\|--wdb\|] [\|--xdb\|] [\|--jdb\|] [\|--pydb\|] [\|--perl\|] [\|--debugger name \|] [\|--[r]host [\|[\|.Iusername.B@].Ihostname\|]\|] [\|--trace\|] [\|--version\|] [\|--configuration\|] [\|.Ioptions...\|] [\|.Iprog.RB[\|.Icore\||\|.IprocID\|]\|]

but usually just

ddd

program

\s-1DDD\s+1 is a graphical front-end for \s-1GDB\s+1 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.

\s-1DDD\s+1 can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of these) to help you catch bugs in the act:

• Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.

• Make your program stop on specified conditions.

• Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.

• Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.

“Classical” \s-1UNIX\s+1 debuggers such as the \s-1GNU\s+1 debugger (\s-1GDB\s+1) provide a command-line interface and a multitude of commands for these and other debugging purposes. \s-1DDD\s+1 is a comfortable graphical user interface around an inferior \s-1GDB\s+1, \s-1DBX\s+1, Ladebug, \s-1XDB\s+1, \s-1JDB\s+1, Python debugger, or Perl debugger.

\s-1DDD\s+1 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 \s-1DDD\s+1 using `File\(->Exit'.

More information on \s-1DDD\s+1 is contained in the \s-1DDD\s+1 Manual. You can read the text-only version in \s-1DDD\s+1 (via `Help\(->DDD Reference') or in Emacs (as Info file). Full-fledged HTML, PostScript, and PDF versions are available online via the \s-1DDD\s+1 WWW page,

  http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

These are the most important options used when starting \s-1DDD\s+1. All options may be abbreviated, as long as they are unambiguous; single dashes may also be used. \s-1DDD\s+1 also understands the usual X options such as `-display' or `-geometry'; see X(1) for details.

All arguments and options not handled by \s-1DDD\s+1 are passed to the inferior debugger. To pass an option to the inferior debugger that conflicts with an X option, or with a \s-1DDD\s+1 option listed here, use the `--debugger' option, below.

--configuration

Show the \s-1DDD\s+1 configuration settings and exit.

--dbx

Run the \s-1DBX\s+1 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 \s-1DDD\s+1 options. For instance, to pass the option `-d directory' to \s-1XDB\s+1, 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 \s-1GDB\s+1 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 \s-1JDB\s+1 as inferior debugger.

--ladebug

Run Ladebug as inferior debugger.

--perl

Run Perl as inferior debugger.

--pydb

Run \s-1PYDB\s+1 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 \s-1DDD\s+1 and the inferior debugger on standard error. This is useful for debugging \s-1DDD\s+1. 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 \s-1DDD\s+1 version and exit.

--wdb

Run the \s-1WDB\s+1 debugger as inferior debugger.

--xdb

Run \s-1XDB\s+1 as inferior debugger.

A full list of options, including important options of the inferior debugger, can be found in the \s-1DDD\s+1 manual.

X(1), gdb(1), dbx(1), wdb(1), xdb(1), perldebug(1)

`\|ddd\|' entry in info.

`\|gdb\|' entry in info.

Debugging with \s-1DDD\s+1: User's Guide and Reference Manual , by Andreas Zeller.

Using \s-1GDB\s+1: A Guide to the \s-1GNU\s+1 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.

\s-1DDD\s+1–A Free Graphical Front-End for \s-1UNIX\s+1 Debuggers , by Andreas Zeller and Dorothea Luetkehaus, Computer Science Report 95-07, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, 1995.

\s-1DDD\s+1 – ein Debugger mit graphischer Datendarstellung , by Dorothea Luetkehaus, Diploma Thesis, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, 1994.

The \s-1DDD\s+1 \s-1FTP\s+1 site,

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddd

The \s-1DDD\s+1 \s-1WWW\s+1 page,

  http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

The \s-1DDD\s+1 Mailing List,

   [email protected]

For more information on this list, send a mail to

   [email protected] .

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