A Fun Exploit For Canon Printers Brings GDB Gifts

Modern printers make it all that much more tempting to try and hack them — the hardware generally tends to be decent, but the firmware appears to be designed to squeeze as much money out of y…

Linux Fu: Up Your GDB Game!

If you want to buy a car, there are plenty of choices. If you want to buy a jetliner, there are fewer choices. If you want to use the Large Hadron Collider, you have a choice of exactly one. The ha…

Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All On Display

Not everyone is a fan of GUI interfaces. But some tasks really lend themselves to something over a bare command line. Very few people enjoy old command line text editors like edlin or ed. Debugging…

Printf-style debugging using GDB, Part 1 | Red Hat Developer

You can use the GDB debugger to understand program behavior without any source code changes. In Part 1, learn how to run virtual print statements.

Debugging Python C extensions with GDB | Red Hat Developer

You can use C debuggers to debug C extensions in Python 3.9. Learn how to use the improved Python debug build with the GNU Project Debugger (GDB).

Digging Into An ATtiny Simulator Bug With GDB

Being able to track down a bug in a mountain of source code is a skill in its own right, and it’s a hard skill to learn from a book or online tutorial. Besides the trial-by-fire of learning w…

Gdbdiff: Diff-ing A Real RP2040 MCU Against An Emulated MCU

What to do when developing an RP2040 emulator but validating the emulator instruction by instruction is a slow and tedious process? Why, automatically compare it against the real hardware if you&#8…