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GNU Project Debugger

GNU Project Debugger, or gdb, is a command-line, source-level debugger for programs that were written in C, C++, D, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Pascal, assembly, Modula-2, or Ada and compiled for any of a number of different target architectures including x86, x86-64, IA-64...

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GNU Project Debugger was added to AlternativeTo by dtrebbien on and this page was last updated . GNU Project Debugger is sometimes referred to as GDB, GNU Debugger. 

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ab1
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Currently, process record and replay is supported on ARM, Aarch64, Moxie, PowerPC, PowerPC64, S/390, and x86 (i386/amd64) running GNU/Linux. Process record and replay can be used both when native debugging, and when remote debugging via gdbserver.

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Process-Record-and-Replay.html

Adriana Mol
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Information understood + accepted

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What is GNU Project Debugger?

GNU Project Debugger, or gdb, is a command-line, source-level debugger for programs that were written in C, C++, D, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Pascal, assembly, Modula-2, or Ada and compiled for any of a number of different target architectures including x86, x86-64, IA-64, Alpha, ARM, Motorola 68000, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, and others. gdb supports hardware breakpoints, conditions, core dump analysis, expression evaluation, remote debugging, stepping into/out of code, disassembling, and, in some cases, reversible debugging.