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What kind of programs can gdb be used to debug?

Can GDB be used to debug programs in languages other than C or C++, like Java?

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GDB can debug a variety of file formats, but it doesn't support scripted languages (Perl, PHP, Python, etc) nor languages that run over a VM (Java, C#, etc). It was made to debug native binaries like ELF, Mach-O, etc.

You can read the complete list of supported file formats on the official GDB documentation. Scroll down to topic 8.4 here.

jweyrich  2010-06-13 03:42:49
Can you list a few languages that can generate native binaries? I can only think of c/c++ ...
wamp  2010-06-13 03:43:55
Pascal, ObjC, Ada, Fortran, Assembly, etc.
jweyrich  2010-06-13 03:46:42

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