Debugging open source applications.

[Zak B. Elep]

On 6/7/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you say debug in linux, are we dealing with offset addresses? with the
> ax bx cx dx registers?, since apps are open source, is there still a need
> for debugging applications?

`xxd', et al. are still pretty useful for looking around, even without
the source.  One application that comes to my mind is in restoring
deleted files in ext{2,3} where a good hexdump is still vital...

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