chatgdb 1.0.1

Harness the power of ChatGPT directly inside the GDB debugger!

ChatGDB

Harness the power of ChatGPT inside the GDB debugger!

Installation instructions

To install, run the command pip3 install chatgdb. It will create an executable called chatgdb that you will have to use to set your api key. To do that, run the command

chatgdb -k <API KEY>

Without the API key, you won't be able to make requests to OpenAI. The API key is stored in text in the same directory as the installed script, which is currently in your python site packages folder

Optionally, you can also download the compressed files in the releases page to get the scripts directly. If you do this, you will need to instead invoke the cli tool with

python path/to/cli.py -k <API KEY>.

How to use

While inside gdb, source the core.py file with source /path/to/core.py. By default, this is pythonXXX/site-packages/chatgdb/core.py. Then you can use the command chat appended by your query, for example chat list all breakpoints that I created. There is also a command called explain that you can use with no arguments to explain the previously run command, and optionally, with a query to just ask GPT a question. Run chat help to print out a short tutorial on how to use the tool.

You can also edit your $HOME/.gdbinit and source the file automatically on startup with source /path/to/core.py.