Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_22

Debugging with GDB

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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Tulsa, OK, USA

 

The primary intention of this book is to teach you how the computer works under the hood. As such, I don’t spend a lot of time focusing on debugging. Nevertheless, the standard GNU debugger (GDB) has support for assembly language programming if things go awry and you are having trouble figuring it out.

One of the nice things about knowing assembly language is that you can use GDB to debug any compiled program, even those without debugging information. Since they all compile to the same machine code, they will all work ...