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If you use emacs, you can use gdb-many-windows to do something similar.

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gd...

Just an FYI, there is a similar TUI built in to GDB: https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI.html

Pretty awesome - the only thing I would change is for the ability to switch to Intel syntax for the disassembly. Maybe I'm the only one - but I find intel syntax easier to read.

You're not the only one, plenty of others agree:

http://x86asm.net/articles/what-i-dislike-about-gas/

But another thing I can say from experience is that GDB Asm-level debugging seems to be more of an afterthought and everything doesn't make as much sense as e.g. OllyDbg or even the old MS-DOS DEBUG. The behaviour of some commands like "disassemble" is perplexing at best[1]. It was really meant for use with higher-level languages.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1237489/how-can-i-force-g...

My experience of gdb asm-level debugging is that it is incredibly buggy and dumps core at the drop of a hat. It's not fit for purpose. I've taken to using it to get a disassembly listing of the problematic code and simply analyzing it in an editor, rather than risk doing anything in gdb.

Glad to hear that! I'm the guy who wrote that thing. You can change the syntax with the built-in GDB command `set disassembly-flavor intel`.

This is super sweet! I've recently been messing around a lot in C/C++ with GDB to spelunk through, and this kind of wrapper makes a lot of things immediately visible that I wish were there by default.

Thanks a ton for posting!

Does anything like this exist for LLDB?

Yes: type "gui"

This looks great but im curious, when do people actually use gdb shell instead of debugging in your IDE? I only do it during emergencies, such as a one in a million bug happened on a server which I can only access over SSH and this might be my only chance to find it. Maybe this tool could make that experience a bit closer to what I'm used to when using an ide.

I use GDB interactively pretty often, generally when working on cross-platform code.

Basically, I can't find any IDEs I like for linux, and the overhead of running a big IDE in a VM (which is where I do most of my cross-platform testing; I principally develop on windows) makes them painful to use.

Wow thank you, this is awesome! It'd be great if you created a place where people could create PR's to share their own modules

Thanks! This is a good advice, I'll surely do it, if it will ever be enough demand.

How does one use this? I can't find conclusive instructions. Yeah, I'm new to this.

Is there much difference between this and the built in windowing features of gdb like `layout asm` and so on?

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