Tdb - A GDB Frontend

Download: tdb-20.zip

Tdb is a Gui frontend for GDB scripted in Wize and Gui. It provide a compact, easy to use interface that exposes most of the Gdb-MI features. Here is a screenshot:

Here is another screenshot with several tabs tornoff:

Features

Tdb provides the following features:

A Stack browser.
A Variable tree inspector.
A Types tree inspector.
Files and Functions tree with searches.
Memory, Registers, Threads and Disassembly.
A GDB help tree browser with searches.
A GDB options tree browse and modify.
Direct access to the GDB interface.

Tdb is fast, and provides most navigation just by double-clicking.

Double clicking in the Stack tab will return to that point of execution.
Double clicking in the Variable tab will go to the declaration.
Double clicking in the Types tab will go to the type definition, etc.

Size

The total size of tdb.zip is about 35 K-bytes.

The implementation source is about 5K lines of which 4K lines are validated Tcl code, and 1K lines are GUI specification. The Gui is about 50% each layout and style.

Running Tdb

Tdb can be executed thus:

  wize tdb.zip myprog arg ....
  # or
  wize / Apps/Tdb myprog arg ...

Parser

Tdb maps the MI protocol directly to a Tcl list, and thus does not require a C compiled parser. This allows Tdb to be entirely in script.