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)