1 This package contains various C programming debugging utilities, such as:
3 addr2line - translates program addresses into file names and line
4 numbers. Given an address and an executable, it uses the debugging
5 information in the executable to figure out which file name and
6 line number are associated with a given address;
8 gcov - displays basic block profile / coverage data, if requested
9 via the C compiler gcc(1) command line options -fprofile-arcs and
10 -ftest-coverage. These options cause the compiler to insert
11 instrumentation into the object files it generates, which measure
12 how often each basic block is executed;
14 gdb - is the GNU debugger. The purpose of a debugger such as GDB
15 is to allow you to see what is going on ``inside'' another program
16 while it executes, or what another program was doing at the moment
19 gprof - displays call graph profile data. gprof produces an
20 execution profile of C, Pascal, or Fortran77 programs.