Education Courses/Debugging

FIXME

Prerequisites : (level, skills .. )

Theorical:

good skills with any text editor gdb options must be known C++ / C skills

Experimental:

Resources :

FIXME: translate my documents

Objectives :

• gdb use:

- build a module including symbols

- build OpenOffice.org including assertions

- used to gdb use

- attach a process

- insert/create breakpoints

- verify and predict what the code will do

- track crashes

- track values

- modify values in runtime

- insert conditionnal breakpoint

- insert breakpoints at line ..

- insert breakpoints at function/method

• valgrind use: FIXME

• leaks tracking ( e.g. on Mac OS X )

• analyse a backtrace

Examples :

outside OpenOffice.org project / internal

Links :

Bibliography :