Cool New Stuff in Gdb 9 and Gdb 10
summary
Shows exactly what’s new and what works: a debuginfod server to fetch separate debug files and source by build-id, improved conditional and tab-completing user-defined commands (including the with scoping and piping output), Python hooks to add new TUI windows and query types, configurable backtrace printing and convenience variables ($_siginfo,$_gdb_setting,$_gdb_setting_str), parallel worker threads for much faster symbol loading, and an on-the-fly compile/inject command — demos mostly work live with a few environment caveats.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:05Poll
- 3:16Debug Info
- 10:10Strip Debug
- 13:57DebugInfoD
- 15:37Debugging InfoD
- 17:38Debug InfoD
- 23:52Microsoft Debugger
- 25:04Userdefined commands
- 29:27With command
- 32:24Pipe command
- 37:50backtrace command
- 40:50ptype
- 45:40firefox symbols
- 49:30layout source
- 57:05compile command
- 58:55C code
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