Chapter 28: Debugging

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks 2026 Book chapter

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Authors: Victor L. Eijkhout
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611978612.ch28
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Abstract

If despite careful design and extensive unit testing your program still aborts or gives incorrect results, you need to resort to debugging. In this section you will see the gdb debugger in action: it allows you to step through your code, and print out variables along the way.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Teaching and Learning Programming Logic programming and type systems

Publication details

Journal / source
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks
Pages
275–281
Publication date
19 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Book chapter