The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse -- Ch. 1
Norman Matloff and Peter Jay Salzman
09.29.2008
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Book description:
The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse teaches readers how to effectively use the three most popular open source debugging tools: GDB, DDD, and Eclipse. The text-command based GDB (the GNU Project Debugger) is included with most Linux distributions. DDD is a popular GUI front end for GDB, while Eclipse provides a complete integrated development environment.
The book offers readers specific advice for debugging with each tool and explains general debugging strategies. Real world examples of coding errors help ...
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to clarify the authors' guiding principles, and readers will quickly understand why their programs crash or throw exceptions.
Readers will learn how to do the following:
- Inspect variables and data structures
- Understand segmentation faults and core dumps
- Use features like catchpoints, convenience variables, and artificial arrays
- Avoid common debugging pitfalls
- Prevent errors in the first place by making the best usage of editors, compilers, and static code checkers
The book also includes coverage of advanced topics like thread, client-server, GUI, and parallel programming. Whether readers dread the thought of debugging programs or simply want to improve their current debugging efforts, they'll find a valuable ally in The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse.
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