Re: gcc compiler - debuging
On 26/10/09 16:57, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-25, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
On 25/10/09 14:51, t wrote:
Hi
How to debuge programc in gcc
You need to use a debugger, such as gdb. Google for "gdb tutorial".
Well, he doesn't actually need a debugger to debug.
Debugging is to me the activity of fixing bugs in general. You can do
that by reading the code, inserting printf()s, writing unit tests,
running it under strace/valgrind/etc, provoking it in various ways ...
or stepping around in a symbolic debugger.
Can not agree more.
Personally I never learned to enjoy that last kind of debugging, not
even in C with its usually simpler call chains. (Although naturally I
use gdb for post-mortem debugging of core dumps -- I'm not stupid).
My first computer was a russian clone of Z80. Most of Z80 programs were
naturally written in assembly language, so the first thing to learn was
to inspect Z80 assembly code with a debugger and a pencil to comment,
injecting printf() statements was science fiction for me at the time ;)
--
Max
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