Editing GNU Debugger (section)

{{Short description|Source-level debugger}}
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{{Infobox software
| logo                   = GDB Archer Fish by Andreas Arnez.svg
| screenshot             = GNU gdb 12.1 screenshot.png
| developer              = [[GNU Project]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1986}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q464113|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q464113|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q464113|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q464113|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
| operating system       = [[Unix-like]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| genre                  = [[Debugger]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb}}
}}

The '''GNU Debugger''' ('''GDB''') is a [[Software portability|portable]] [[debugger]] that runs on many [[Unix-like]] systems and works for many [[programming language]]s, including [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]], [[Assembly language|Assembly]], [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[D (programming language)|D]], [[Fortran]], [[Haskell]], [[Go (programming language)|Go]], [[Objective-C]], [[OpenCL|OpenCL C]], [[Modula-2]], [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]],<ref>{{cite web
|title=GDB Documentation - Supported Languages
|url=http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Supported-Languages.html#Supported-Languages
|access-date=2011-11-28
|archive-date=2017-12-28
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228100403/https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Supported-Languages.html#Supported-Languages
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> and partially others.<ref>{{cite web
|title=GDB Documentation - Summary
|url=http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Summary.html#Summary
|access-date=2011-11-28
|archive-date=2012-07-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701062129/http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Summary.html#Summary
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>
It detects problems in a program while letting it run and allows users to examine different registers.