The strace command lets you see what a process is doing, how it is interacting with the operating system. It monitors system calls and signals. As others have pointed out, using strace’s output can be ...

In my last article, I discussed, in quite some detail, the process that GCC uses to convert a C source file into an executable program file. These steps included preprocessing the source to remove ...

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or ...