Project Summary
GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.
GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of these) to help you catch bugs in the act:
* Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
* Make your program stop on specified conditions.
* Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.
* Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.
The program being debugged can be written in Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal (and many other languages).
In a Nutshell, GDB...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 1,058 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 1988
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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