1This package contains various C programming debugging utilities, such as:
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3          addr2line - translates program addresses into file names and line
4          numbers. Given an address and an executable, it uses the debugging
5          information in the executable to figure out which file name and
6          line number are associated with a given address;
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8          gcov - displays basic block profile / coverage data, if requested
9          via the C compiler gcc(1) command line options -fprofile-arcs and
10          -ftest-coverage. These options cause the compiler to insert
11          instrumentation into the object files it generates, which measure
12          how often each basic block is executed;
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14          gdb - is the GNU debugger. The purpose of a debugger such as GDB
15          is to allow you to see what is going on ``inside'' another program
16          while it executes, or what another program was doing at the moment
17          it crashed;
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19          gprof - displays call graph profile data. gprof produces an
20          execution profile of C, Pascal, or Fortran77 programs.
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