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Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger
Debugging with GDB explains how to use the GNU Debugger. It explains how to run your program under debugger control, how to examine and alter data, how to modify the flow of control within the program, and how to use GDB through GNU Emacs, with auto-display of source lines.
GDB features command-line editing, a value history, and userdefined commands. It has the ability to call functions in the program being debugged and to watch a location in memory and take action when it changes. GDB reads symbol tables incrementally, which provides for fast startup and less memory use.
GDB can be used to debug C and C++ programs.
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826 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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Richard M. Stallman
72 books123 followersRichard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
The GNU/Linux system, which is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are used in tens or hundreds of millions of computers, and are now preinstalled in computers available in retail stores. However, the distributors of these systems often disregard the ideas of freedom which make free software important.
That is why, since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
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The GNU/Linux system, which is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are used in tens or hundreds of millions of computers, and are now preinstalled in computers available in retail stores. However, the distributors of these systems often disregard the ideas of freedom which make free software important.
That is why, since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
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February 10, 2022
Why yes, I did read the entire book from cover to cover. Real, dead tree paper, too. Ordered straight from the FSF website. It's a software manual. It's a good software manual. It's thorough. You will learn GDB if you read this book. You can skip a lot of the internals, API, and discussion about exotic hardware. But don't skip all of the internals - the "info symbol" and "info address" commands have been very helpful in assembly debugging. Oh, and I never would have tried writing GDB scripts if I hadn't read this.
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