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by gmueckl 2503 days ago
I still miss a good debugging GUI with useful data visualizations. Sometimes staring at pointers and (multidimensional) arrays of numbers just isn't enough.
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For data visualizations I use gdb's Python API. For simple things that can be just adding pretty printers, for hairy things it can be a custom command that prints extra information or dumps it to a graphviz script.

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python-API.html

Why do you miss that, I used ddd yesterday.