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The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what
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is going on "inside" another program while it executes--or what
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another program was doing at the moment it crashed.
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GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support
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of these) to help you catch bugs in the act:
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* Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its
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behavior.
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* Make your program stop on specified conditions.
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* Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.
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* Change things in your program, so you can experiment with
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correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about
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another.
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