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Appendix A. Using gdb

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The debugger is a very powerful instrument at your disposal. It allows executing programs step by step and monitoring their state, including register values and memory contents. In this book we are using the debugger called gdb. This appendix is an introduction aimed to ease your first steps with it.

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Zhirkov, I. (2017). Appendix A. Using gdb. In: Low-Level Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2403-8_18

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