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