The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

Main Debugger Operations

Here we give an overview of the main types of operations that a debugger offers.

Stepping Through the Source Code

You saw earlier that to run a program in GDB, you use the run command, and that in DDD you click Run. In details to be presented later, you will see that Eclipse handles things similarly.

You can also arrange for execution of the program to pause at certain points, so that you can inspect the values of variables in order to get clues about where your bug is. Here are some of the methods you can use to do this:

Breakpoints

As mentioned earlier, a debugging tool will pause execution of your program at specified breakpoints. This is done in GDB via the break command, together with the line number; ...