Ldb: A debugger for Lua

Ldb is a debugging system for the extension language Lua, provided as a C library of Lua functions to be linked with the application

Ldb was developed as part of the master thesis of Tomás Guisasola who worked together with his advisor Roberto Ierusalimschy at the Computer Graphics Technology Group (TeCGraf) of PUC-Rio.

Some features of Ldb

Breakpoints;

Step-by-step execution;

Automatic visualization of variables;

Line actions; and

Dynamic code execution.

Availability

The Ldb library is not public software. However, it is available for pure academic, non profit, use by anonymous ftp; you can also get a post-script version of the Ldb Reference Manual.