1. Introduction This article discusses the renowned GDB. We won’t mention its prestigious background; like its sibling GCC, it was born with a golden key and holds an irreplaceable position in the GNU family. Every embedded development engineer has likely used gdb to debug programs; if you haven’t, it only indicates your development experience hasn’t … Read more
This article is a highlight from the KX forum Author from KX forumID: ScUpax0s The goals of this article are: Main goal: Understand the debugging principles of GDB and learn the use of ptrace. Secondary goal: Implement a tiny debugger that can be used for tracing. Terminology: tracer: The one who traces tracee: The one … Read more
What is GDB GDB stands for the GNU Project debugger, primarily used for debugging user-mode applications. According to the official documentation, GDB supports debugging applications written in the following languages: Ada Assembly C C++ D Fortran Go Objective-C OpenCL Modula-2 Pascal Rust Of course, the most common use is for debugging applications written in C/C++. … Read more