Debugging is the art of removing bugs from software. The software may be code, documentation, or anyother intellectual product. Here, we will look at the debugging of computer programs (or libraries) written in C or C++ in a Unix environment. Most of it is also applicable to other compiled procedural and
object oriented languages like Pascal, Modula and Objective C.

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Author : J.H.M. Dassen & I.G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper