Homework Submission

Your writeup should follow the writeup guidelines. Even if a certain question is just a “step”, please include it in your report and simply write “done” for the sake of easy grading (e.g. Debug an Application section’s first question is just a step, so please write “1. done”).

1. GDB Tutorial

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

3. Debug – answer the questions about debugging an application from the Debug an Application section.

Deliverables

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

• one tarball from the Debug an Application 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.