How to Learn More
This presentation offers an entre into the usage and workings of the GNU debugger. Fortunately, there are a number of
sources for further study.
The would-be learner should start with the GDB manual "Debugging with GDB", by Richard Stallman and Roland Pesch. The manual has quite a few interesting tidbits; I still come across things that I didn't know before. It is available in bookstores, (ISBN 1-882114-09-4), and also online as web pages.
The "GDB Internals" manual is also useful, although still sketchy on many subjects. It includes a basic description of the target architecture definition macros.
Then there is the source code. It is not the ideal of code, but there are quite a few comments in it, both for the theory and practice of how it's supposed to work.
The main GDB web page is at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb. This page also includes links to information about GUIs for GDB, such as DDD, as well as links to the downloadable sources.
There are a number of mailing lists discussing GDB. gdb@cygnus.com is for general discussion of GDB. The
gdb-patches@cygnus.com list is for submission of patches to GDB; oftentimes you can monitor this to see what new things
are being added. gdb-announce@cygnus.com is a low-traffic list for announcements, while gdb-testers@cygnus.com is
mainly used during the GDB release process to announce snapshots and report test results.
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