Introduction

The intended audience for this book is a student taking CMSC414 or a similar course who needs to use the GNU Debugger (GDB) to inspect a program’s behavior. We make no attempt to thoroughly document GDB, only to provide a solid basis for a particular type of debugging. Noteworthy things we omit include:

• breakpoints beyond a simple break command
• tracepoints
• find
• explore

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/ or the help command in GDB.