Other Debuggers with graphical output like DDD

Question

Is there any other debugger that tries to give some more graphical representation of datastructures after hitting a breakpoint?

I'm planning to write a Debugger myself and would like to see what the competition can do. Especially for (dynamically typed) script languages i think it would be nice as often you can only guess what data is exactly there.

Are there some better data display interfaces for some of the "image" languages like lisp and smalltalk?

Answer 1

Microsoft Visual Studio has also fairly good data display, in particular for C#.

Microsoft has a number of nice screenshots:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd554943%28VS.100%29.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893657

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364082%28VS.80%29.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb964629.aspx

Answer 2

There are also

• kdbg as part of KDE
• qtcreator as of Qt and hence cross-platform

Answer 3

I presume that OP is looking for something like DDD's ability to view data (an array) as a histogram, etc http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/plots.png

or to visually display lists and pointers http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/all.png - just look at that top pane!! I can't explain how much I treasure this - and, afaik, no other debugger offers this.

Hint to OP, if you want to implement something like that, then make use of http://www.graphviz.org/