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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would try to fix VS, uninstall it, check logs for errors, maybe ask support?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A simple downgrade solved the issue, but regardless of that I'll try to look into some alternatives, especially since VS has licensing issues, which is fine for me as I use it for open source projects, but might not be fine for others who would use it for closed source projects, and I made my open source engine in a way it allows for be used in closed source projects.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Try deleting all obj and bin folders in the repo and restart VS. Sometimes it gets stuck on an old project reference and can't clear out the cached files

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Honestly it sounds like there's an infinite loop in your code before it hits your breakpoint.

[–] [email protected] 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/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Remedybg ! Its paid but definitely worth it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

LLDB?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm unsure whether it'll work for D, but remedyDB is the best debugger I've ever used personally