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1.7. Homework Submission

Your writeup should follow the writeup guidelines. Your writeup should include the following:

  1. Tools

    1. Describe how you do the following in gdb (each 3 lines max.):

      1. Add a breakpoint.

      2. Remove a breakpoint.

      3. Inspect a variable value.

      4. Step through program execution without a breakpoint.

  2. Debug

    1. Provide the correct output from the terminal.

    2. Provide code for the corrected function including the Makefile.

    3. Include a description of how you used the tools to identify the bug. (Or confirm a hypothesis you formed about the location of the bug) (5 lines max.)

    4. Answer the question about GDB. (3 lines max.)

    5. Provide code for the insert_in_order function, including Makefile.

  3. C – answer the questions about C pointers, compilers, and executables from the C Refresher section.

1.7.1. Deliverables

In summary, upload the following in their respective links in canvas:

  • two tarballs from the Debug section.

    Quick linux commands for tar files

    # Compress
tar -cvzf <file_name.tgz> directory_to_compress/
# Decompress
tar -xvzf <file_name.tgz>

  • writeup in pdf.