Maruti: Debugging and GDB Debugger tutorials on Web !!

What is Debugging?

Debugging is the process of locating and fixing errors (known as bugs), in a computer program, or hardware device. To debug a program or hardware device, you start with a known problem, isolate the source of the problem, and then fix it.

Introduction of debugger:

A debugger is a program which can run the program. The only difference is that it can go inside of a program and it has the ability to run step by step in the program. Debugger sometimes referred to as symbolic debugger also.

GDB Debugger:

GDB is a debugger which is part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU operating system. Its original author is Richard M. Stallman. GDB can be used to debug C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java and Assembly programs. There's partial support for Modula-2 and Pascal. It'll run on any architecture.

Compile source code:
In order to debug a file, first you need to compile the program. In case of gcc compiler you need -g option to compile the source code so that the output file is ready to debug with GDB. For example, if the source file is hello-world.c, the command for compilation will be:

gcc -g -o hello_world hello_world.c

This command will create the output/executable file named as hello_world. You have to debug the source file with this executable file.

Run GDB debugger:

In order to run the GDB debugger, the command is:

gdb hello_world

It will display the license agreement and the you will be able to see the GDB prompt (GDB). It means that you are under GDB debugger and you are all ready to start debugging your source program.

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Step-by-step example for using GDB within Emacs to debug a C or C++ program

http://kb.iu.edu/data/aqsy.html

C/C++ Programs and Debugging in Linux

http://bytes.com/topic/c/insights/827839-zen-art-debugging-c-c-linux-gdb

http://sourceware.org/gdb/download/onlinedocs/gdb/index.html

Short tutorial on using debuggers and profiling tools on UPPMAX

http://www.uppmax.uu.se/Members/agback/short-tutorial-on-using-debuggers-and-profiling

Options for Debugging Your Program or GCC

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/DeveloperTools/gcc-4.0.1/gcc/Debugging-Options.html

Debugging with GDB

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/DeveloperTools/gdb/gdb/gdb_toc.html

Compiling C and C++ Programs

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~beechung/ref/gcc-intro.html

GNU Debugger - GDB

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/gnu_debugger/index.htm

Debugging C or C++ with GDB in Code::Blocks

http://brainspoil.net/?p=94

Java Debugging with gdb

http://gcc.gnu.org/java/gdb.html

Debugging "C" And "C++" Programs Using "gdb"

http://www.users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/debugging/debugging-with-gdb.html

Debugging with GDB, The GNU Source-Level Debugger, Ninth Edition, for GDB version 5.1.1 January 2002

http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gdb-5.1.1/html_node/gdb_toc.html

Vi companions

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/references/gnu/vim/Vim-HOWTO-5.html

What Do You Use to Debug Linux / UNIX C/C++ Programs?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/what-do-you-use-to-debug-linux-unix.html

Debugging remotely on DaVinci using gdb

http://wiki.davincidsp.com/index.php/Debugging_remotely_on_DaVinci_using_gdb

Gdb Features for C++

http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Debugging-C-Plus-Plus.html#Debugging-C-Plus-Plus

Free Books Related to Debugging on web !!

Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15737979/Art-of-Debugging-with-GDB-DDD-and-Eclipse

Debugging With Gdb

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24533623/Debugging-With-Gdb

Videos:

C Programming, Disassembly, Debugging, Linux, GDB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twxEVeDceGw

GDB Introduction

A short introduction to GDB. GDB is the GNU Debugger and a powerful tool to debug all different kinds of programs.

http://vimeo.com/2831923

The Little Book of C: Integrating Insight Debugger

Showing how to install a debugger for use in Crimson Editor.The debugger using is Cygnus Insight Debugger. Insight is actually a graphical user interface for the command line debugger gdb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYHqDMAM9_Y

Forums :

http://forum.codecall.net/c-c/12998-debugging-c-c-file-gdb-debugger.html

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/debugger/

http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-2220.html

http://www.unix.com/high-level-programming/29015-debugging-pro-c-programs.html

http://www.astahost.com/info.php/cc-gdb-linux-debug-tool_t18753.html

Advanced c++ debugging techniques on Unix

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/browse_thread/thread/1fb6fcbef3ea7c14/975b29afcdfa918

Problems in debugging core files

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-384166.html