GDB is the Gnu Debugger, a program that helps you debug programs written in C, C++ and other programming languages. This is the second of three tutorials. The topics of each tutorial are: Basic GDB ...

We have all had the experience of writing a program, running it, and finding out that it segfaults or worse does not work as expected. We all have used printfs on every variable or to display "got to ...

As your embedded applications get more complicated an On-Chip Debugger will save you a lot of time when things don’t run quite right. On-Chip Debugging (OCD) is just what it sounds like — a way to run ...

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or ...

GDB loses significant functionality when debugging binaries that lack debugging symbols (also known as “stripped binaries”). Function and variable names become meaningless addresses; setting ...

If you write code for Linux systems, chances are you will have used the venerable GNU Debugger (GDB). Acting as a back end for many GUIs and the interface to various JTAG debugging tools in the ...

Most of my programming is in C, so most of the material on this page will be directly relevant to C programming. C++ moved C into Object oriented programming, while C# allows C to function in the ...