debugging under linux

From: jacob navia (jacob_at_jacob.remcomp.fr)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:21:23 +0100

I have to debug a program at the assembly level in linux

Does anyone know of a good debugger?

gdb is just too much work to use and too primitive.
My fingers hurt from typing

disassemble
info all registers

at each step. Besides, the disassembly listing is awful.
It writes negative numbers as unsigned offsets, so you get
0xFFFFFFF8 instead of -8, for instance.

Instead of showing the memory values at each memory access,
as MSVC does, you have at each move type

x *0x1E23
after looking the value in the corresponding register,
etc etc.

I need something like the MSVC debugger for linux, i.e.
displaying the disassembly in one window, the registers
in another.

I can't automate this, since if I write it in a
"dbg procedure", the disassemble window will scroll, and
I can't see BOTH at the same time. The registers info is
too long so that it will scroll also.

I am ready to buy a commercial product if available.
(Soft Ice for linux? or I am dreaming?)

jacob

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