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swift       05/07/14 09:42:27

  Modified:    xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft debugging-howto.xml
  Log:
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1.3       +27 -26    xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/debugging-howto.xml

file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/debugging-howto.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo
plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/debugging-howto.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo
diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/debugging-howto.xml.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&cvsroot=gentoo

Index: debugging-howto.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/debugging-howto.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3
--- debugging-howto.xml	13 Jul 2005 18:58:31 -0000	1.2
+++ debugging-howto.xml	14 Jul 2005 09:42:27 -0000	1.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/debugging-howto.xml,v 1.2 2005/07/13 18:58:31 fox2mike Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/draft/debugging-howto.xml,v 1.3 2005/07/14 09:42:27 swift Exp $ -->
 
 <guide link="/doc/en/debugging-howto.xml">
 <title>Gentoo Linux Debugging Guide</title>
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-Lastly, you can also add debug to the package's USE flags. This can be done with the
-<path>package.use</path> file.
+Lastly, you can also add debug to the package's USE flags. This can be done 
+with the <path>package.use</path> file.
 </p> 
 
 <pre caption="Using package.use to add debug USE flag">
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@
 run_it(), and somewhere in run_it() lies the strcpy() at fault. Things such as
 this help developers narrow down problems. There are a few exceptions to the
 output. First off is forgetting to enable debug symbols with
-<c>FEATURES="nostrip"</c>. With debug symbols stripped, the output looks something
-like this:
+<c>FEATURES="nostrip"</c>. With debug symbols stripped, the output looks 
+something like this:
 </p>
 
 <pre caption="Program backtrace With debug symbols stripped">
@@ -311,13 +311,14 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-As you can see, -ggdb3 adds about <e>13178</e> more bytes to the file size over the one
-with debugging symbols. However, as shown above, this increase in file size can
-be worth it if presenting debug information to developers. The backtrace can be
-saved to a file by copying and pasting from the terminal (if it's a non-x based
-terminal, you can use gpm. To keep this doc simple, I recommend you read up on
-the documentation for gpm to see how to copy and paste with it). Now that we're
-done with <c>gdb</c>, we can quit.
+As you can see, -ggdb3 adds about <e>13178</e> more bytes to the file size 
+over the one with debugging symbols. However, as shown above, this increase 
+in file size can be worth it if presenting debug information to developers.
+The backtrace can be saved to a file by copying and pasting from the 
+terminal (if it's a non-x based terminal, you can use gpm. To keep this 
+doc simple, I recommend you read up on the documentation for gpm to see
+how to copy and paste with it). Now that we're done with <c>gdb</c>, we 
+can quit.
 </p>
 
 <pre caption="Quitting GDB">
@@ -327,11 +328,11 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-This ends the walk-through of <c>gdb</c>. Using <c>gdb</c>, we hope that you will
-be able to use it to create better bug reports. However, there are other types
-of errors that can cause a program to fail during run time. One of the other
-ways is through improper file access. We can find those using a nifty little
-tool called <c>strace</c>.
+This ends the walk-through of <c>gdb</c>. Using <c>gdb</c>, we hope that you 
+will be able to use it to create better bug reports. However, there are other 
+types of errors that can cause a program to fail during run time. One of the 
+other ways is through improper file access. We can find those using a nifty 
+little tool called <c>strace</c>.
 </p>
 
 </body>
@@ -350,9 +351,9 @@
 tool called <c>strace</c> was created to help deal with this. <c>strace</c>
 traces system calls (hence the name) which include calls that use the memory and
 files. For our example, we're going to take a program foobar2. This is an
-updated version of foobar. However, during the change over to foobar2, you notice
-all your configurations are missing!  In foobar version 1, you had it setup to
-say "foo", but now it's using the default "bar".
+updated version of foobar. However, during the change over to foobar2, you 
+notice all your configurations are missing!  In foobar version 1, you had it 
+setup to say "foo", but now it's using the default "bar".
 </p>
 
 <pre caption="Foobar2 With an invalid configuration">
@@ -406,9 +407,9 @@
 <body>
 
 <p>
-<c>strace</c> is a great way at seeing what the kernel is doing to with the filesystem.
-Another program exists to help users see what the kernel is doing, and help with
-kernel debugging.  This program is called <c>dmesg</c>
+<c>strace</c> is a great way at seeing what the kernel is doing to with the 
+filesystem. Another program exists to help users see what the kernel is doing,
+and help with kernel debugging.  This program is called <c>dmesg</c>.
 </p>
 
 </body>
@@ -569,9 +570,9 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-The program is compiling smoothly when it suddenly stops and presents an error message. This
-particular error can be split into 3 different sections, The compile messages, the build
-error, and the emerge error message as shown below.
+The program is compiling smoothly when it suddenly stops and presents an error 
+message. This particular error can be split into 3 different sections, The 
+compile messages, the build error, and the emerge error message as shown below.
 </p>
 
 <pre caption="Parts of the error">



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