What is GDB?
GDB is the GNU Project
debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program
while it executes -- or what another program
was doing at the moment it crashed.
GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus
other things in support of these) to help you catch bugs in the act:
- Start your program,
specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
- Make your program
stop on specified conditions.
- Examine what has happened, when your program
has stopped.
- Change things in your program,
so you can experiment with correcting the effects of one bug and go on to
learn about another.
The program
being debugged can be written in C,
C++, Pascal
(and many other languages). Those programs
might be executing on the same machine as GDB (native) or on another machine
(remote). GDB can run on most popular UNIX
and Microsoft
Windows
variants.
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