| Name |
First release |
Description |
Language |
OS |
Memory protection? |
Program animation? |
License |
Most recent release |
|---|
| adb |
1977 |
Unix standard debugger |
Any compiled to machine code |
Unix |
No |
? |
Proprietary |
|
| Allinea DDT |
2002 |
Allinea DDT Debugger |
Any compiled to machine code |
Linux |
Offers guard page for memory usage bugs |
Yes |
Proprietary |
5.1, Aug 2015 |
| GDB |
1986 |
GNU Debugger |
Any compiled to machine code |
Unix-like systems, Windows |
No |
Yes |
GPL |
13.2, 27 May 2023 |
| IDB |
2012 |
Intel Debugger |
Any compiled to machine code |
Windows, Linux, OS X |
No |
? |
Proprietary |
13.0.1, 2013 |
| LLDB |
2003? |
LLVM Debugger |
Any compiled to machine code |
macOS i386, x86-64 and AArch64, iOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows |
No |
? |
Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions |
16.0.5, 2 June 2023 |
| mdb |
1999 |
Solaris standard debugger (adb) successor |
Any compiled to machine code |
Solaris |
Yes (Memory debugger) |
? |
CDDL |
2016 |
| TotalView |
1998 |
Source code and memory serial and parallel debugger |
C++, C, CUDA, FORTRAN, MPI, OpenMP |
Linux, AIX, Solaris, OS X, Cray, Blue Gene[1] |
Yes (Memory debugger) |
Yes |
Proprietary |
2016.07, Nov 2016 |
| Undo LiveRecorder |
1998 |
Source code and memory serial and parallel time travel debugger[2] |
C++, C, Go, Rust, Java |
Linux |
Yes (Memory debugger) |
Yes |
Proprietary |
6.4, Apr 2022 |
| Valgrind |
2007? |
tool suite for debugging and profiling Linux programs[3] |
C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, assembly code, Fortran, Ada, ... |
Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), Android |
Yes |
? |
GPL |
3.17.0, March 2021 |
| Visual Studio Debugger |
1995 |
Debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio |
C++, JavaScript, .NET languages |
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2[4], Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 |
Yes,(Managed) |
Yes |
Proprietary |
March 7, 2017 |
| XPEDITER |
1980? |
family of mainframe debuggers |
COBOL, PL/1 & Assembler |
z/OS |
Yes (CICS) |
Yes |
Proprietary |
z2.1, Oct 2014 |