Which debugger is best?

Hello Forum members!

I am a C programmer and want to try to get into your world :-)
I was wondering if someone could guide me with some clues of what tools to ues, i.e. what debugger to use, etc...

Regards,
Nakkeost

[dave_omirora]

Ollydbg is best debegger, because his references available.

[Fyyre]

Hi,

Start learning assembly language, if not familiar with it already.

For live debugging (ring-3), OllyDbg is king.

-Fyyre

Originally Posted by nakkeost

Hello Forum members!

I am a C programmer and want to try to get into your world :-)
I was wondering if someone could guide me with some clues of what tools to ues, i.e. what debugger to use, etc...

Regards,
Nakkeost

SoftIce is the Best!
Cheers, Sope!

[Fyyre]

Originally Posted by sope2001

SoftIce is the Best!
Cheers, Sope!

For kernel mode debugging under x86 Windows XP - 2003, nothing is better than SoftIce. Certainly wish the source code leaks... then it could be updated a bit...

-Fyyre

[Squidge]

I use Ollydbg and IDA for most 'debugging'. IDA has built in debugger, but I prefer Olly. IDA is best for examining structure of code and then exporting names to Olly. IDA also has decompiler plugin, but meh, I prefer to look at the assembler code in graph view - makes more sense to me.

Course, if your target isn't x86, then you have no choice but to use IDA.

For kernel work I use WinDbg and sometimes Softice, depending on the exact problem.

I love ollydbg, in my opinion it's the best debugger today

[deroko]

It's also good to learn some windbg basics. Might come handy sometimes.

[Av0id]

agreed with deroko, windbg for now very useful for remote driver and x64 apps debugging, but gui not so user friendly

if he uses MS VStudio then the best debugger is the one which comes with the ide. if you plan to operate on pe files not having the source code, then you should take in consideration olly, ida, windbg etc.

gdb is powerful!!!

[deroko]

Well also for Linux you may use EDB from http://www.codef00.com . I'm using it on my x64 linux box. Too bad it's not ported for win x64, as it would be great addition for x64 debugging.

[Av0id]

the little problem with edb is that you must compile it for proper platform and debug there, you can't use x64 edb to debug x86 apps and vice versa, you can't build x86 edb on x64 linux and vice versa

+1 for olly, and 64bit is coming!

Hi
ollydbg I think the best option is to crack software such facilities is very wide, which is the only surprise is that 64-bit programs and does not support NET.