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		vidarh on Aug 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning C with gdb Just telling them how to start it and use "bt", "up","down","print", and "cont" would be a huge step forward for most developers... On a related note, it drives me crazy when developers don't know strace/ltrace or the equivalent for their platform. I use strace many times a day to diagnose anything from my own code to figuring out what config files an application actually loads to finding out what's slowing an app down.

voltagex_ on Aug 28, 2012 [–]

strace still blows me away every time I use it. ProcMon on Windows does some of the same stuff, but there's really no comparison.

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