S-GDB: GDB extension geared to beginners

Welcome to S-GDB! S-GDB is designed to help students and beginners get more familiar with GDB.

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Installation

This installation procedure assumes you already have GDB installed and available via the gdb command on your terminal/cli. Once GDB is installed, open a new terminal window and follow these instructions:

Clone the S-GDB repo

git clone github.com/rva5120/sgdb

Change .gdbinit to always source the sgdb.py script

vim ~/.gdbinit
[add this line to the .gdbinit ->] source <path>/<to>/sgdb/sgdb.py

Running S-GDB

S-GDB features 5 commands, including a tutorial. After installing S-GDB, you can start running GDB. If you changed .gdbinit appropriately (as recommended on the installation), you can start using any othe the commands below.

Tutorial

(gdb) tutorial

x86 Instruction Information

(gdb) instruction <instruction name>

Loops Highlighting

(gdb) show loops <function name>

Recursion Highlighting

(gdb) show recursion <function name>

Examining Memory

(gdb) memory

Troubleshooting

Tutorial Errors:

• If needed, notes.c might need to be recompiled: gcc notes.c -o notes -ggdb

Enhancing S-GDB

To add more commands, please refer to sgdb.py.