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I'm looking for a debugger for Windows after the Visual Studio one no longer works for me (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ZILtoid1991@kbin.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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After a software update, VS2022 stopped working correctly. When I hit a break point, I don't get any local variables and their values, instead I get a "wait..." label that looks like a button, and also VS is growing in memory size until it crashes my Windows, or I either stop the debugging or VS itself.

So far I get the best results by using x64dbg, but it has it's own issues, namely that almost all guides only discuss its reverse engineering capabilities, and I need a development tool, so I don't have to rely on printing to the console as debugging, which has a lot of issues (leaving in the print commands, etc). I'm programming in D, but it should work with any other debugger made for C, and up until recently I used VS for that purpose.

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[–] pfech@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's not often talked about but WinDbg is a great tool: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/