Nemiver Features and TODO

• Robust. Its maintainers hate seeing it crashing. A debugger really should never crash. If you experience a crash, please please please, report it!. We'll take pride in fixing it.

• Fast. We hate splash screens. We prefer trying hard to make the damn thing start fast
• Reasonable memory consumption. We want to give a chance to people with humble machines to debug their native applications

• GTK+ standalone graphical debugger. No need to setup a project just to debug a binary that you already have

• GNOME integration
  • the code base has been fully ported to GNOME 3
  • options are stored in GConf or GSettings
  • we use the same text engine as GEdit (we have the same code syntax highlighting)
  • more generally we love the GNOME platform and heavily rely on it
• Breakpoints are saved when you close Nemiver: when you restart it on the same binary you don't have to re-set the breakpoints
• Support for debugging applications running on remote machines (using gdbserver)
• Support attaching to running processes by just giving the name of the process (not necessarily needed to specify the PID of the process to attach to)
• Basic stuff: breakpoint, conditional breakpoints, next, step into, jump to arbitrary execution addresses, inspecting of variables, calling an arbitrary functions in the inferior, etc...
• Watchpoints
• Variables monitoring: it's possible to add an expression to the variable monitor and see it be automatically evaluated each time the program being debugged stops
• Ability to change the value of a variable
• Ability to copy the content of a variable into the GTK clipboard
• Ability to copy the call stack into the GTK clipboard

• Advanced tooltips to show the content of variables ( see the screencast)

• Ability to inspect or set the memory of the inferior program
• Ability to inspect and set the registers of the inferior program
• Ability to branch execution to an arbitrary address (jump to)
• Integrated disassembler:
  • switches the source view to disassembly mode and automatically disassembles instructions around the current instruction pointer - this is useful e.g, when debugging a binary that doesn't have debug info installed; in that case, Nemiver automatically switches to disassembly mode.
  • supports mixed source and assembly mode
• If the underlying GDB crashes, no need to re-launch Nemiver. Just re-starting the inferior should transparently bring up a new GDB

• The TODO list

If you have some missing features, please file a task in the issue tracker.