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GDB

The most standard debugging tool on UNIX is the GNU Debugger gdb. Its main functionnality is to display the piece of code which procuced a crash. To do it, compile your code with the -g option, so that debugging information will be added to the executable. This information is mainly a correspondance between the machine langage instructions and locations in the source. Then, execute the program from gdb.

For instance

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int size = 100;

int a[size];
for(int i = 0; i < 100 * size; i++) a[i] = i;
}
> g++ -o bang -g bang.cc
> gdb ./bang


GNU gdb 6.1-debian
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
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Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...\
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/bang

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080483e3 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff8e4) at bang.cc:4
4 for(int i = 0; i < 100 * size; i++) a[i] = i;
(gdb) l

1 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
2 int size = 100;
3 int a[size];
4 for(int i = 0; i < 100 * size; i++) a[i] = i;
5 }

Note that gdb is a very primitive tool unable to spot tricky errors such as
memory leaks or forbidden access which do not crash the program.



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