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DDD (Data Display Debugger) 1.4b Linux binaries are available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 22:27:22 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:55:14 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Andreas Zeller <zeller@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
Subject: DDD (Data Display Debugger) 1.4b Linux binaries are available
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DDD 1.4b Binaries for Linux are available
=========================================
A Linux binary of the Data Display Debugger (DDD 1.4b), a graphical
front-end for GDB and DBX debuggers, has been uploaded to
ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/bin/linux/
and will soon be available at
ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/programming/tools/ddd/bin/linux/
ftp://ftp.gre.ac.uk/pub/tools/debuggers/ddd/bin/linux/
ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/ddd/bin/linux/
as well as
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/debuggers/
and all of sunsite's mirror sites.
This release contains substantial fixes for Linux systems. If
previous DDD releases failed to run on your system, try this one.
The binary comes in fully statically linked ELF format. It has been
reported to run without trouble on ELF systems as well as on a.out
systems with compiled-in ELF support. Most recent a.out systems
include ELF support; other users of Linux a.out systems should compile
ELF support in their kernel.
Here is the LSM entry:
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Title: ddd
Version: 1.4b
Entered-date: 24JAN96
Description: The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a comfortable
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. Complex data structures can be
explored incrementally and interactively. Other DDD
features include: debugging of programs written in C,
C++, Pascal, MODULA-2, FORTRAN, and ADA; machine-level
debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup;
GDB/DBX command-line interface with full editing,
history, and completion capabilities; breakpoint,
backtrace, and history editors; optional program
execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on
remote host; on-line manual; interactive help on the
OSF/Motif user interface. DDD has been designed to
compete with well-known commercial debuggers.
Keywords: ddd, GUI, debugger, visualization
Author: luetke@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Dorothea Luetkehaus)
zeller@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Andreas Zeller)
Maintained-by: ddd@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (DDD Maintainers)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/devel/debuggers
1204kB ddd-1.4b.tar.gz (Source)
1226kB ddd-1.4b.gz (statically linked ELF binary)
Alternate-site: ftp.funet.fi /pub/OS/Linux/devel/debuggers
1204kB ddd-1.4b.tar.gz (Source)
1226kB ddd-1.4b.gz (statically linked ELF binary)
Original-site: ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de /pub/local/softech/ddd/
Copying-policy: GPL
End
To find out more about DDD, see its WWW page
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/
The official announcement follows.
DDD 1.4b is available
=====================
Release 1.4b of the Data Display Debugger (DDD), a graphical
front-end for GDB and DBX debuggers, is now available at
ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
Diffs from earlier versions are in
ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/diffs/
DDD binaries for various architectures are in
ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/bin/
Please try a closer FTP site first; see below for a list.
DDD News
========
DDD 1.4 realizes the top ten suggestions of DDD users. It brings
the long awaited machine code support, new breakpoint and
execution symbols, improved DBX support, enhanced integration
facilities, a program argument history, and lots of small features
and improvements.
Changes to DDD 1.3:
- Full machine code support: Assembler and register windows,
Breakpoints in machine code, no-source debugging, stepping over
instructions. (GDB only)
- Breakpoints and the current execution position are now displayed
as stop signs and arrow symbols (``glyphs''). The `old' text
mode is still available.
- Argument history: Upon program start, select from a list of
previously used program arguments.
- Using the new `--tty' option, DDD can be easily integrated with
other GDB/DBX front-ends. For instance, you can have DDD run as
an inferior debugger from your Emacs GDB-mode, having all Emacs
and DDD facilities at your disposition.
- Improved C++ support with DBX 3.x. Thanks to Grant McDorman
<grant@isgtec.com>.
- Displays with format expressions (`/x') are properly
dereferenced.
- Improved position history mechanism.
- Automatic reloading of source files when the debugged program
has changed; explicit reload is no longer required.
- File selection dialogs are synchronized: changing the directory
in one dialog also changes the directory in all others.
- Interactive dialogs for disambiguating C++ names.
- Several major and minor bugs have been fixed. Special thanks to
Grant McDorman <grant@isgtec.com>.
- DDD incorporates the name of its builder in `Help/Show Version'.
- No more `Help on Debugging' item. Sigh.
- Compilation trouble with older GCC versions as well as
older C++ compilers fixed.
- Compilation in separate directory fixed.
- For older GDB versions, one may use `display /x $pc' and `print
/x $pc' to get the current PC value.
- Minor bugs in construction and installation fixed.
- Much faster start-up, due to delayed parsing of the VSL library.
- Custom paper size support for printing graphs.
- Paper size and printing command is saved with options.
- On some X11 configurations, DDD was caught in a busy loop upon
invocation. Now fixed.
- On some Linux configurations, DDD crashed immediately upon
invocation. Now fixed.
- Manual update of data display (`graph refresh') improved.
- `set' and `assign' commands automatically update the data
display.
- New releases of top-level `configure' and `libiberty' included.
- Building DDD creates executable with canonical name.
Summary of DDD
==============
The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a comfortable 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. Using DDD, you can reason about your application by
viewing its data, not just by viewing it execute lines of source
code.
Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in C,
C++, ADA, Fortran, Pascal, or Modula-2; machine-level debugging;
hypertext source navigation and lookup; GDB/DBX command-line
interface with full editing, history, and completion capabilities;
breakpoint, backtrace, and history editors; optional program
execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote host;
on-line manual; interactive help on the OSF/Motif user interface.
DDD has been designed to compete with well-known commercial
debuggers.
DDD has been extensively beta-tested (especially by debugging
itself) and configures, compiles and runs out-of-the-box on every
major UNIX brand, including AIX (powerpc-ibm-aix3,
rs6000-ibm-aix3), FreeBSD (i386-intel-freebsd1), HP-UX
(hppa1.1-hp-hpux9, m68k-hp-hpux9), IRIX (mips-sgi-irix5), Linux
(i[345]86-unknown-linux, i[345]86-unknown-linuxaout), Alpha OSF
(alpha-osf3), Solaris (i386-sun-solaris2, sparc-sun-solaris2),
SunOS (sparc-sun-sunos4), and ULTRIX (mips-dec-ultrix4).
DDD is free software, protected by the GNU general public license.
It is actively maintained by its authors, Dorothea Luetkehaus and
Andreas Zeller at the Technische Universitaet Braunschweig,
Germany.
Requirements
============
To build a complete DDD from sources, you need:
* The GNU C++ compiler (GCC/G++, preferably release 2.6.3 or
later), and a matching C++ I/O library (libg++, libstdc++, or
libiostream).
Some other C++ compilers have been reported to compile DDD as
well, such as Sun CC 4.0. Cfront 3.0 does not compile DDD.
* The X window library (Xlib) and X toolkit library (Xt), X11R4 or
later.
* The OSF/Motif Widget library (release 1.1 or later). Best
results are achieved using Motif 2.0 in conjunction with the
Athena Widget library.
* Optionally, in addition to the OSF/Motif widget library, the
Athena Widget library (release 5 or later). Having the Athena
Widget library is convenient for supporting two-dimensional
scrollbars and the `editres' protocol.
* Lots of virtual memory.
To run DDD, you need a GDB debugger (version 4 is required; best
results are achieved with 4.13 or later). Using GDB, you can
debug programs written in C and C++; GNU ADA (`gnats'), GNU
Fortran (`g77') and GNU Modula-2 have been reported to work as
well.
As an alternative, DDD also supports Sun's DBX debugger. Using
DBX, you can debug programs written in C, C++, Pascal and
Modula-2. DBX debuggers on systems other than Sun have been
reported to work as well.
More Information
================
A World-Wide-Web page (including screen shots) devoted to DDD is
installed at
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/
A short DDD survey with several screen shots is available at
ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/ddd-paper.ps.gz
The six-page paper gives a short introduction to the
``look-and-feel'' of DDD and highlights some internal aspects.
The DDD users mailing list, `ddd-users@ips.cs.tu-bs.de', is the
right place to contact other DDD users for assistance and hints.
New DDD releases and bug fixes are also announced here. Send a
mail to `ddd-users-request@ips.cs.tu-bs.de' for more information
on this list and how to subscribe.
Some people and organizations offer support services for DDD. See
the file `SERVICE' in the DDD distribution for details.
Send suggestions and bug reports for DDD to `ddd-bugs@ips.cs.tu-bs.de'.
DDD source FTP sites
====================
The DDD source package `ddd-1.4b.tar.gz' will soon be at these FTP
sites as well. Please try them before `ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de' since
ftp.ips has a slow network connection.
North America
- -------------
ftp://ftp.crl.research.digital.com/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/X11R6/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.uu.net/systems/window-sys/X/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
Europe
- ------
ftp://ftp.denet.dk/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/archive/software/X/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.NL.net/pub/windows/X/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/X11-contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
East Asia
- ---------
ftp://ftp.cs.cuhk.hk/pub/Xcontrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/X/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
ftp://NCTUCCCA.edu.tw/X/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
Australia
- ---------
ftp://archie.AUX11/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.4b.tar.gz
DDD full FTP sites
==================
Besides DDD source packages, the sites listed here also carry DDD
binaries and patches as well as formatted DDD documentation and
DDD-related papers.
DDD pre-compiled binaries are available for a variety of
architectures. This may be useful for people who lack GCC or Motif.
However, compiling DDD on your machine is strongly preferred. Use
binaries as a last resort only.
The `bin/README' file contains a list of available binaries.
Additional contributions are very welcome.
North America
- -------------
ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/ddd/
Europe
- ------
ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/
ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/programming/tools/ddd/
ftp://ftp.gre.ac.uk/pub/tools/debuggers/ddd/
Have fun!
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Andreas Zeller (ddd@ips.cs.tu-bs.de)
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
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