GNU DDD 3.4.1 Released As GUI Front-End To GDB

As the first new release in more than one year, GNU DDD 3.4.1 is now available as a GUI front-end to the GNU Debugger (GDB).

The Data Display Debugger (DDD) provides an interactive graphical data display to GDB as well as other command-line debuggers. With the DDD 3.4.1 release there is now dark mode GUI support, support for client side fonts, better UTF-8 support, improved macOS support, support for parallel make when building, 15+ bug fixes, and a variety of other improvements to this GDB front-end.

Some of the other debuggers supported with DDD besides GDB that continue to be supported are PyDB, Remake, Bashdb, the Perl debugger, JDB, and others. The mailing list announcement for DDD 3.4.1 sums up this first release since May 2023 as:

- Support for client-side fonts
- Dark mode
- Flexible line number width
- Expanded UTF-8 support
- Default source editors are gvim or emacs
- Remove Make and Edit buttons from tool bar
- Improved MacOS support
- Eliminate external configuration files
- Support parallel make for build
- DDD Reference Manual available through HELP
- Resolve 15+ bug reports

Downloads and more details on DDD 3.4.1 via the GNU.org project site.