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  65. <h2 class="unnumbered">Summary of <small>GDB</small></h2>
  66. <p>The purpose of a debugger such as <small>GDB</small> is to allow you to see what is
  67. going on &ldquo;inside&rdquo; another program while it executes&mdash;or what another
  68. program was doing at the moment it crashed.
  69. </p>
  70. <p><small>GDB</small> can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of
  71. these) to help you catch bugs in the act:
  72. </p>
  73. <ul>
  74. <li> Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
  75. </li><li> Make your program stop on specified conditions.
  76. </li><li> Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.
  77. </li><li> Change things in your program, so you can experiment with correcting the
  78. effects of one bug and go on to learn about another.
  79. </li></ul>
  80. <p>You can use <small>GDB</small> to debug programs written in C and C<tt>++</tt>.
  81. For more information, see <a href="Supported-Languages.html#Supported-Languages">Supported Languages</a>.
  82. For more information, see <a href="C.html#C">C and C++</a>.
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  84. <p>Support for D is partial. For information on D, see
  85. <a href="D.html#D">D</a>.
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  88. <p>Support for Modula-2 is partial. For information on Modula-2, see
  89. <a href="Modula_002d2.html#Modula_002d2">Modula-2</a>.
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  91. <p>Support for OpenCL C is partial. For information on OpenCL C, see
  92. <a href="OpenCL-C.html#OpenCL-C">OpenCL C</a>.
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  95. <p>Debugging Pascal programs which use sets, subranges, file variables, or
  96. nested functions does not currently work. <small>GDB</small> does not support
  97. entering expressions, printing values, or similar features using Pascal
  98. syntax.
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  101. <p><small>GDB</small> can be used to debug programs written in Fortran, although
  102. it may be necessary to refer to some variables with a trailing
  103. underscore.
  104. </p>
  105. <p><small>GDB</small> can be used to debug programs written in Objective-C,
  106. using either the Apple/NeXT or the GNU Objective-C runtime.
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