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An Insight into GDB Principles

2025-04-28 by boardor

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

Build Your Own GDB: Basic Functionality

2025-04-28 by boardor

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