Using GNU's GDB Debugger

Other Stuff

By Peter Jay Salzman

• The official GNU GDB page is at sources.redhat.com/gdb. You can download versions of GDB from the current developer's CVS all the way to the version released back in 1988!.
• There are a number of mailing lists for GDB, including:
  • gdb-announce: a read-only low volume list for the posting of announcements about releases or important events.
  • gdb: a list for general discussion about GDB.
  • gdb-patches: patch submissions and discussion. All patch submissions and submission discussion goes here.
  • gdb-prs: Mailing list for discussing bugs submitted to the bug reporting database.
  • gdb-testers: a list for the announcement of development snapshots and the reporting of test results.
  • gdb-cvs: is where CVS commit messages go when things are checked into the GDB CVS repository.
  • src-cvs: is where CVS commit messages for the top-level files and shared directories go.
  • bug-gdb: bug reports and discussion of bugs in GDB.
• GNU's official GDB user manual in html and .
• The GDB Internals Manual.

• The official user's manual in various formats.
• An excellent tutorial by Norm Matloff. Highly recommended.
• A very brief tutorial.
• A very good tutorial, called "RMS's GDB Tutorial". His initials happen to be "RMS". Heh. Very droll!
• A very brief GDB tutorial.
• A tutorial that focuses on C++.

I've received some great email from around the world. I have a keen interest in other peoples' cultures, their likes, dislikes, what they do, who they are. I'd love to fly to each country and make each one of these people my personal friend. But I can't, so I'll simply post some of the fantastic "kudos" that this page has generated.

If you want your email taken down (or don't want it posted) let me know and I'll be happy to oblige. I'm just grateful to get any email kudos at all. Feel free to send me your homepage, pic, or blog and I'll post them here if you like.

• USA - Abhishek Sharma:   homepage - 2006 Jun 21 06
• India - Sri Charan:   blog, blog entry - 2006 Apr 20
• India - Vihan Pandey - 2006 May 01
• USA (Santa Clara) - Rayees Shamsuddin - 2005 Aug 29
• Brazil - Hilton Fernan - 2005 Aug 02
• Brazil - Fábio Luiz - 2005 Jul 22
• India - Ram - 2005 Mar 04
• Canada - Mark Lord - 2005 Jan 21

These are some Google rankings of my GDB tutorial. Personally, I think this tutorial is the best on the net. If you want to repay me for writing this tutorial, please consider linking to my tutorial to give me some link-foo with Google. It's easier and cheaper than buying a book!   :)

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