NAME

       kdbg - a graphical debugger interface

SYNOPSIS

       kdbg [ generic-options ] [ -t file ] [ -r device ] [ -l language ] [ -p pid ] [ program ] [ core ]

DESCRIPTION

       KDbg  is  a  graphical  user  interface to gdb, the GNU debugger.  It provides an intuitive interface for
       setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, stepping through code and much more.  KDbg  requires  KDE  but
       you can of course debug any program.

       KDbg  can  also debug XSLT (XML stylesheet translation) scripts by interfacing with xsldbg.  Debian users
       must install the kxsldbg package to make use of this feature.

       You can pass KDbg the path of the executable to debug (program) or a core dump to debug (core).

       Features of KDbg include:

              Inspection of variable values in a tree structure.

              Direct member: For certain compound data types the most important member values are displayed next
              to the variable name, so that it is not necessary to expand the subtree of that variable in  order
              to see the member value.  KDbg can also display Qt's QString values, which are Unicode strings.

              Debugger  at  your  finger  tips:  The  basic  debugger functions (step, next, run, finish, until,
              set/clear/enable/disable breakpoint) are bound to function keys F5 through F10.  Quick and easy.

              View source code, search text, set program arguments and environment variables, display  arbitrary
              expressions.

              Debugging of core dumps, attaching to running processes is possible.

              Conditional breakpoints.

OPTIONS

       Below are the kdbg-specific options.  For a full summary of options, run kdbg --help.

       -t file
              Write a transcript of the conversation with the debugger to the given file.

       -r device
              Use remote debugging via the given device.

       -l language
              Specify  the language of the program/script to debug.  This must be either C (for a C/C++ program)
              or XSL (for an XSLT script).  If this option is not passed  then  KDbg  will  try  to  deduce  the
              language from the given filename.

       -p pid Attach to the process with the given process ID.

SEE ALSO

       gdb(1), xsldbg(1).

       Full  user  documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre.  Alternatively the HTML documentation
       can be viewed directly from /usr/share/doc/kdbg/html/.

AUTHOR

       KDbg was written by Johannes Sixt <Johannes.Sixt@telecom.at>.
       This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may  be
       used by others).

                                                 March 25, 2005                                          KDBG(1)