Getting the Most Out of GDB
summary
Shows how to use GDB’s TUI mode to view source and assembly, Python pretty-printers to format custom C/C++ structs, and a custom prompt that prints time and function. Demonstrates gdbserver + target remote for embedded-like debugging, conditional and regex breakpoints, watch -l for precise memory watches, multi-process inferiors with catch fork and follow-fork/detach settings, dynamic printf, calling functions from GDB, and time-travel debugging (record/reverse and rr/Intel branch tracing) to find an out‑of‑bounds write; recommends compiling with -g3.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 20:34Breakpoints
- 27:31Multiprocess Debugging
- 35:40thread apply
- 36:17calling inferior functions
- 37:43Reversible Debugging - how did that happen?
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