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		thrown_22 on Aug 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Implementing a “mini-LaTeX” in ~2000 lines of code I once build an interpreter for x86_64 to see what my machine code was doing line by line. Then I read the GDB manual.

Joker_vD on Aug 5, 2022 [–]

A not-so-nice thing about GDB is that if you order it to disassemble a program with slightly unusual/wrong ELF headers, it (the GDB, not the program) can segfault which is quite an unreasonable thing for a debugger to do IMHO.

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