Linux Debugger

[Reference] (https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/writing-a-linux-debugger-setup/)

Debugger supports the following operations:

• Setting Breakpoints
  • break 0xAddress
  • break functionName
  • break fileName:lineNumber
• Accessing Registers
  • register read registerName
  • register write registerName 0xval
  • register dump
• Accessing Memory
  • memory read 0xADDRESS
  • memory write 0xADDRESS 0xVAL
• Accessing symbols
  • symbol symbolName(ex: function name, variable name)
• StackTrace (with all function calls)
  • backtrace
• Variables (list all variables active in the function)
  • variables
• Execute single instruction
  • stepi
• Stepping over functions (on simple functions, i.e no support for dynamic library)
  • step (step next)
  • next (step over function)
  • finish (step return)

Build

• run cmake
• make
• ./debugger <executable_name>