One of the most useful functions provided by debuggers is setting breakpoints in certain lines of code to stop execution at those points and examine the status of the program. Breakpoints can be both hardware and software. GDB can set…

Errors are a collateral (and undesired) phenomenon that occur when writing code. Some, like syntactic errors, are easy to detect and correct, since normally the compiler,  interpreter or  IDE itself will warn us that we have some open parentheses for…