2024-01-05 22:39:19 +01:00
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# gdb
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2024-01-05 22:39:22 +01:00
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GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes.
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GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of these) to help you catch bugs in the act:
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* Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
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* Make your program stop on specified conditions.
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* Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.
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* Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.
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The program being debugged can be written in Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal (and many other languages).
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Those programs might be executing on the same machine as GDB (native) or on another machine (remote).
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If you are going to develop C and/or C++ programs and use the GNU gcc compiler, you may want to install gdb to help you debug your programs.
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