Introduction to debugging a C/C++ program

by SAM
sam@cs.vu.nl

version 1.1

• Introduction
• Most commonly made mistakes
  • Syntactic mistakes
    • C/C++
    • C++
  • Semantic errors
    • C/C++
    • C++
• Debugging a compiled program
  • Think before you do
  • Careful design
  • Careful reading
  • Producing debug-output
  • Using assertions
  • Isolating the bug
  • Using a debugger
    • Memory faults
    • Debugging, a core business
    • Tracing code
      • An example in C
      • An example in C++
• More information
• References
• About this document ...