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GDB Status Commands

where -- stack trace
  • find which function the program was executing when it crashed.
  • stack may also have references to system error-handling functions.
up [N] -- move down the stack
  • allows you to skip to scope of particular function in stack
list [LINE] --- show code
  • displays five lines either side of current statement.
print EXPR -- display expression values
  • EXPR may use (current values of) variables
  • special expression a@1 shows all of the array a