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The [GNU Project Debugger](http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/) (GDB) is a helpful tool for finding bugs, as it lets you know what a program is doing while it runs. This page is dedicated to the Hurd's port of GDB and how to use or help maintain it.

  * [[Maintenance|open_issues/gdb]]
  * [[Backtraces|backtrace]]
  * [Manual](http://sourceware.org/gdb/documentation/)
  * [When disassemble doesn't
    work](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-02/msg00039.html)


# Open Issues

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  * *[Implementing a Mach Debugger for Multithreaded
    Applications](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.38.5670)*,
    Deborah Caswell and David Black, 1990.  This talks about GDB.