CppCon 2016: Greg Law “GDB - A Lot More Than You Knew"

Greg Law demonstrates lesser-known GDB features including reversible debugging, non-stop mode, multi-process debugging, and Python scripting.

CppCon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: github.com/cppcon/cppcon2016 — If you’re writing C++ for anything other than Windows, chances are that you occasionally break out GDB. This session presents some of the lesser known features of GDB that can change the way you debug. GDB has come a long way in the last few years and now does so much more than break, print, step and continue. Reversible debugging; Non-Stop Mode; Multi-process Debugging; and Dynamic Printf are but some of its best features, and its built-in Python scripting is particularly powerful. Join Undo co-founder and CEO, Greg Law, as he takes you through a series of demos to show some amazing tricks with GDB and some of its powerful new (and not-so-new) features that you may not have heard of. — Greg Law CEO, Undo Ltd Greg is a software geek at heart, but likes to keep one foot in the software world and one foot in the business world. He finds it particularly rewarding to turn innovative software technology into “real” business development. Greg has over 20 years of experience in both academia and innovative start-up software companies. In 2005 he co-founded Undo Software, which he now runs. — Videos Filmed & Edited by Bash Films: BashFilms.com Work at Hudson River Trading (HRT): tinyurl.com/safxfctf