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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Thu Dec 19 16:09:37 2024 +0100 (5 days ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/gdb/description.txt Thu Dec 19 16:09:37 2024 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ 1.4 +GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on "inside" 1.5 +another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at 1.6 +the moment it crashed. 1.7 + 1.8 +GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of 1.9 +these) to help you catch bugs in the act: 1.10 + 1.11 +* Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior. 1.12 +* Make your program stop on specified conditions. 1.13 +* Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped. 1.14 +* Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting 1.15 + the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another. 1.16 + 1.17 +Those programs might be executing on the same machine as GDB (native), 1.18 +on another machine (remote), or on a simulator. 1.19 +GDB can run on most popular UNIX and Microsoft Windows variants, as well 1.20 +as on Mac OS X.