Debugging with DDD
From EdWiki
What is DDD?
GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB, DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the bash debugger bashdb, the GNU Make debugger remake, or the Python debugger pydb. Besides usual front-end features such as viewing source texts, DDD has become famous through its interactive graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs.
DDD is a front-end to a command-line debugger (called inferior debugger, because it lies at the layer beneath DDD). DDD supports the following inferior debuggers:
To debug executable binaries, you can use DDD with GDB, DBX, or XDB.
- GDB, the GNU debugger, is the recommended inferior debugger for DDD. GDB supports native executables binaries originally written in C, C++, Java, Modula-2, Modula-3, Pascal, Chill, Ada, and FORTRAN.
How to install?
sudo apt-get install ddd
How to Run?
ddd --debugger arm-none-eabi-gdb wordcopy.elf
After a few seconds, DDD comes up. The Source Window contains the source of your debugged program; use the Scroll Bar to scroll through the file.
The Debugger Console (at the bottom) contains DDD version information as well as a GDB prompt.
GNU DDD 3.3.12 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), by Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller. Copyright © 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Copyright © 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany. Copyright © 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany. Copyright © 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Reading symbols from /home/jshankar/arm-asm-examples/wordcopy/wordcopy.elf...done. (gdb)
The first thing to do now is to place a Breakpoint, making sample stop at a location you are interested in. Click on the blank space left to the initialization of a. The Argument field (): now contains the location (sample.c:31). Now, click on Break to create a breakpoint at the location in (). You see a little red stop sign appear in line 31.
The next thing to do is to actually execute the program, such that you can examine its behavior. Select Program > Run to execute the program; the Run Program dialog appears.
