Best Debugging Software for Linux

rpdb is essentially a Python wrapper around pdb that will re-route stdin and stdout to a socket handler. By default it opens the debugger on port 4444:import rpdb; rpdb.set_trace()But you can change that by simply instantiating Rpdb manually:import...

Nemiver is an open source and compltely free graphical software project implemented in C++/GTK+ and designed from the ground up to act as a standalone C and C++ debugger that uses the great GNU Debugger (GDB) as its backend.Integrates with the GNOME...

Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and programming mistakes.Splint does many of the traditional lint checks including unused declarations, type inconsistencies, use before definition, unreachable code,...

WingDBG is a Zope product that allows Wing to debug Python code running under...

ltrace is a debugging program which runs a specified command until it exits.It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the program.The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you...

What about running nose with a smarter interactive debugger?Use this and never risk yourself forgetting import pdb; pdb.set_trace() in your code again!ipdbplugin is a nose plugin that's 99.99% based on nose's builtin debug plugin.If you have any ideas...

Mpatrol is a library that provides powerful debugging while diagnosing runtime errors that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory. It acts as a malloc() debugger for debugging dynamic memory allocations, although it can also trace and...

This is an open source Java implementation of the dprintf command-line UNIX utility, which prints to a file descriptor. It features printf-like format strings.However, it is modified in such a way that the generated output will automatically contain...

drainhunter is a Python memory leaks investigating tool, includes Django...

edisassm is a disassembler engine for the EDB debugger.Developer commentsMy Debugger (EDB) has recently spawned off a side project. I am no longer satisfied with libdisasm as the disassembler engine for EDB. It is a stagnant project and only supports...