intensifier / ups

The ups debugger (unofficial repository)

The ups debugger (unofficial repository)

This is an ancient debugger for C, C++ and Fortran. The original project page is http://ups.sourceforge.net/.

It has only seen marginal changes in the last 10 years, but still kind of works.

This repository is a git conversion of the original CVS repository hosted at SourceForge. It additionally contains minor modifications and ugly hacks to make ups work with modern code in more cases.

Usage

It uses your system's libelf, libdwarf and libiberty, so make sure you have these libraries and also their header files installed. ups is then compiled with autotools

sudo apt-get install libelf-dev libdwarf-dev libiberty-dev

./configure --enable-dwarf --enable-elf --enable-longlong
make

Make sure you compile your programs without optimizations, with debugging information in "dwarf" format enabled and not as a position independent executable:

gcc -gdwarf -no-pie -o test test.c
ups/ups ./test

More Info

For more information see the original README file, the website, and the various other documentation files in the repository.