Introduction

This prac will take you through some short web pages on GNU Info, GCC, GDB, and Make, along with a few other associated programs and concepts. Go through the pages in the order listed below, and do all the activities they suggest. Next to each of the links in the list is a description of what your demonstrator will test you on for a pass in this prac.

Topics

• GNU Info: You will be asked to find particular info pages and to move around them.
• GCC: You will be asked to explain the compilation steps as displayed by gcc, the path searching and output of the preprocessor, the correspondance between the assembly code and the compiled source code, the effect of enabling debugging information, the output of objdump, linking, and the path searching done by linker.
• The GNU debugger: You will be asked to explain and move within a stacktrace, to set breakpoints and step through the code, and to display variables.
• Make and Makefiles: You will be asked to explain the contents of the given Makefile, and the effect of altering some source files.