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The purpose of this blog is to provide a guide to Linux C (and C++) programmers as to how to use the Gnu DebuGger, GDB, effectively.
My reasons for writing this are because I participate a great deal in the Linux Questions site and view, plus respond to a number of questions in the Programming forum, and I notice that programmers of various experience seem to be lacking in either experience+knowledge, or initiative, to use the debugger.
I use Emacs to write code occasionally, mostly Fortran. A common thing I need to do is search and replace everywhere in a region confined to a rectangle within the text. An example is altering an existing code from Fortran 77 format to Fortran 90, specifically changing all of the Cs in column one (indicating comments) to !s. In Emacs terminology, this is a rectangle of width 1 character and as high as the number of lines in the code.
I have had difficulty figuring out how to do this...
Been tackling this Linux beast for some days now, and I have settled on Debian.
I don't have sound and I don't have internet, but I have Linux. It's a start.
This whole thing began as some sort of immersion therapy attempt to learn C. Got myself a K&R, a Debian Distro and have just downloaded Emacs with my *cough* Vista box.
The plan is to work my way through K&R, get my audio and net up with some help from LQ, et.al.,...
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