Debuggers
The standard debugger on Linux systems is gdb, with DDD as a graphical user frontend. To enable full debugging in your programs, you must run the compiler with the -g option to write a symbol table and other debugging information into the executable. To start gdb on an executable named program, run this command:
gdb program
You should get a (gdb) prompt. To run program with the command-line arguments options, type this at the (gdb) prompt:
run options
If the program works, it should start, run, and exit as normal. However, if there's a problem,gdb stops, prints a stack trace and the failed source code, and throws you back to the (gdb) prompt. Because the source code fragment often gives you a hint about the problem, you often want to ...
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