Cameron Laird's personal notes on gdb tutorials

Quite a few tutorials introduce gdb; along with the official manual and related documentation, which constitute a marginal tutorial, here are a few worth your consideration:

• RMS put together a tutorial formatted as an FAQ.
• Peter Jay Salzman co-authored a book based, in part, on a lively tutorial he wrote. It's readable and accurate--think of it as a more human version of the GNU manual. It reaches as far as attach (in the vicinity of which it hides advice on debugging without symbols), and culminates in an exploration of the issues ncurses raises. While Salzman's site went off-line early in 2009 (the preceding link is to an archive.org cache), Rob Somers republished the tutorial from it. Also, Salzman's co-author Norman Matloff has a slightly more general tutorial which uses gdb for its examples, as well as a highly detailed "interactive tutorial" focused exclusively on gdb.
• The Tutorials Point commercial site offers a no-charge "Debugging with GDB" tutorial. I find it admirably earnest and methodical, with more care and detail than is typical of the ones college classes seem to toss off, but otherwise less successful (in part because so much of the screen goes to advertising) than the most ambitious tutorials above. A notable value for its level, though, is that it briefly mentions signal handling. Jennifer Gage gives signal handling a few more words of attention in this tutorial for the University of South Florida.
• This is a one-page introduction to use of gdb for a Princeton lab focused on lcc. It includes one paragraph on gdb within emacs.
• Prolific Andrew Gilpin maintains this tutorial, originally written to support a class at Washington University. It's much like Benji Jasik's, but with a bit more commentary.
• John W. Clark summarizes the official manual here.
• Quite a few other tutorials arose to support particular college classes, including this one from Ohio University. They are largely fungible; any one can be digested in five minutes.
• Michael J. Donahoo's "How to Debug Using GDB" distinguishes itself from all the other gdb tutorials that have made an impression on me by its presentation in terms of systematic recipes.
• Several "reference cards" or "cheat sheets" are available for gdb, including this one from YoLinux.

[Say a few words about how no one has yet explained GDB/MI.]

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