Appendix A — GDB usage Notes

A.1 Basic GDB Commands

• bt: backtrace. Displays the active call stack, i.e. the chain of function calls that led to the program’s current stopping point.

  GDP lists the currently executing frame first as frame #0, then it’s callers as #1 and the #nth callers caller as #n+1.

• frame <n>: switch to frame \(n\).

• info locals: information about the stack variables.