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This is a comparison of debuggers: computer programs that are used to test and debug other programs.

Name	First release	Description	Language	OS	Memory protection?	Program animation?	License	Most recent release
Allinea DDT	2002	Allinea DDT Debugger	Any compiled to machine code	Linux	No	?	Proprietary	5.0, Feb 2015
XPEDITER	1980?	family of mainframe debuggers	COBOL,PL/1 & Assembler	z/OS	Yes (CICS)	Yes	Proprietary	z2.1, Oct 2014
z/XDC	1988	mainframe debugger and development tool	Assembler	z/OS	No	Yes	Proprietary	2015
GDB	1986	GNU Debugger	Any compiled to machine code	Unix-like systems, Windows	No	?	GPL	7.8.1, Oct 2014
IDB	2012	Intel Debugger	Any compiled to machine code	Windows, Linux, OS X	No	?	Proprietary	13.0.1, 2013
LLDB	2003?	LLVM Debugger	Any compiled to machine code	Mac OS X i386 and x86-64, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows support is coming soon	No	?	BSD-Style	3.5.0, Sep 2014
pdb		Python debugger	Python	Any	No	?	Python Software Foundation License	3.4.2, Oct 2014
Valgrind	2007?	tool suite for debugging and profiling Linux programs^[1]	C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, assembly code, Fortran, Ada, ...	Linux, Darwin (Mac OS X), Android	Yes	?	GPL	3.10.1, Nov 2014
Visual Studio Debugger	1995	Debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio	.net languages	Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2[4]	Yes,(Managed)	Yes	Proprietary	November 12, 2014

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