Software:Comparison of debuggers
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This is a comparison of debuggers: computer programs that are used to test and debug other programs.
| Name | First release | Description | Language | OS | Memory protection? | Program animation? | License | Most recent release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adb | 1977 | Unix standard debugger | Any compiled to machine code | Unix | No | ? | Proprietary | |
| Allinea DDT | 2002 | Allinea DDT Debugger | Any compiled to machine code | Linux | Offers guard page for memory usage bugs | Yes | Proprietary | 5.1, Aug 2015 |
| GDB | 1986 | GNU Debugger | Any compiled to machine code | Unix-like systems, Windows | No | Yes | GPL | 13.2, 27 May 2023 |
| IDB | 2012 | Intel Debugger | Any compiled to machine code | Windows, Linux, OS X | No | ? | Proprietary | 13.0.1, 2013 |
| LLDB | 2003? | LLVM Debugger | Any compiled to machine code | macOS i386, x86-64 and AArch64, iOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows | No | ? | Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions | 16.0.5, 2 June 2023 |
| mdb | 1999 | Solaris standard debugger (adb) successor | Any compiled to machine code | Solaris | Yes (Memory debugger) | ? | CDDL | 2016 |
| TotalView | 1998 | Source code and memory serial and parallel debugger | C++, C, CUDA, FORTRAN, MPI, OpenMP | Linux, AIX, Solaris, OS X, Cray, Blue Gene[1] | Yes (Memory debugger) | Yes | Proprietary | 2016.07, Nov 2016 |
| Undo LiveRecorder | 1998 | Source code and memory serial and parallel time travel debugger[2] | C++, C, Go, Rust, Java | Linux | Yes (Memory debugger) | Yes | Proprietary | 6.4, Apr 2022 |
| Valgrind | 2007? | tool suite for debugging and profiling Linux programs[3] | C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, assembly code, Fortran, Ada, ... | Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), Android | Yes | ? | GPL | 3.17.0, March 2021 |
| Visual Studio Debugger | 1995 | Debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio | C++, JavaScript, .NET languages | Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2[4], Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 | Yes,(Managed) | Yes | Proprietary | March 7, 2017 |
| XPEDITER | 1980? | family of mainframe debuggers | COBOL, PL/1 & Assembler | z/OS | Yes (CICS) | Yes | Proprietary | z2.1, Oct 2014 |
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