An introduction to GDB
Hey guys, this is my first post and pardon me for any errors if I make any errors. Hope you know about x86 architecture, assembly language, stack, etc. If not then head over to security tube to learn a bit about it. So let's begin. GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed. GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of these) to help you catch bugs in the act: Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior. Make your program stop on specified conditions. Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped. Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another. So I just copied that piece of text from gnu.org :p . Basically what it does is show us the assembly code for a program which is really really helpful and...