Chapter 6. The GNU Debugger (GDB)
Introduction
A good debugger is perhaps the single most important and comprehensive tool for troubleshooting any problem, developing applications, using reverse engineering, or just self-educating. There are many different kinds of debuggers across all different platforms—some are commercial products that may or may not be included with an associated commercial compiler. The GNU Debugger, or more commonly called GDB, is one of the few that is available across a myriad of hardware platforms running Linux including i386, x86-64, SPARC, PA-RISC, RS/6000, IA64, s390 as well as various flavors of Unix operating systems including AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris. There is a great deal of documentation currently available for ...
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