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