GDB user interfaces

GDB is controlled at a low level through the GDB machine interface, GDB/MI, which can be used to wrap GDB in a user interface or as part of a larger program, and it considerably extends the range of options available to you.

In this section, I will describe three that are well suited to debugging embedded targets: the Terminal user interface, TUI; the data display debugger, DDD; and the Eclipse C-development Toolkit (CDT).

Terminal user interface

Terminal user interface (TUI) is an optional part of the standard GDB package. The main feature is a code window that shows the line of code about to be executed, together with any breakpoints. It is a definite improvement on the list command in command-line mode...