[olug] addendum/correction and more ways of helping yourself

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I was just curious if strace is a useful debugging tool?

        Gary Martin

"Mark A. Martin" wrote:

> You're right, Vincent.  Many programs can be run in debug or verbose
> mode without recompiling.  I should have mentioned that.  Otherwise,
> compiling a debug version of a piece a software and using gdb can be
> useful.
>
> I've used gdb a fair amount but didn't mention it because it's primarily
> useful if you're developing software or trying to port it to your system
> rather than just trying to use it.  I could talk about it but
> considering how successful I've been at getting to the meetings over the
> past few months...  Of course, agreeing to talk might be the motivation
> I need to get there.  But if there's a true expert out there, I would be
> happy to defer to him or her.
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> Mark A. Martin                                  Dept of Applied Mathematics
> http://www.amath.washington.edu/~mmartin        University of Washington
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