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GDB Debugging for Programmers

GDB is a debugger that helps debug binary object files by allowing users to step through code line by line, set breakpoints, examine variables, and see call stacks. It supports many languages like C, C++, Ada, and allows debugging programs when they crash or have segmentation faults.

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GDB Debugging for Programmers

GDB is a debugger that helps debug binary object files by allowing users to step through code line by line, set breakpoints, examine variables, and see call stacks. It supports many languages like C, C++, Ada, and allows debugging programs when they crash or have segmentation faults.

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What is GDB?

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GDB stands for GNU DeBugger which helps you to debug your binary object file
created in compilation process.

GDB allows to you see what is happening in your program which really helps much
when program crashes, especially when segmentation fault occurs

Some uses of gdb:


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Step through a program line by line

Set breakpoints that will stop your program

Make your program stop on specified conditions

Show the present values of variables

Examine the contents of any frame on the call stack

Languages supported by GDB


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Ada, Assembly, C, C++, D, Fortran, Go, Objective-C, OpenCL, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust

Install gdb
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$ sudo apt-get install gdb

$ gdb --version

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