Debugging C and C++ code in a Unix environment

Debugging is the art of removing bugs from software. The software may be code, documentation, or any other intellectual product. Here, we will look at the debugging of computer programs (or libraries) written in C or C⁺⁺ in a Unix environment. Most of it is also applicable to other compiled procedural and object oriented languages like Pascal, Modula and Objective C.

Table of content:

1	Abstract
2	Introduction
3	Conventions
4	Aspects of debugging C and C code
5	Noticing and localising a bug
6	Understanding a bug
7	Repairing a bug
8	Types of bugs
9	C and C++ specific problems
10	The build process
11	Core dumps
12	Debugging techniques
13	Tools
14	Conclusions
15	Bibliography
16	An example makefile
17	Documentation formats