Tag: python

  • Advanced GDB Usage

    by Tyler Hoffman

    In this reference-style post, we discuss some of the more advanced and powerful commands of the GNU debugger, GDB, as well as cover some of the best practices and hacks I’ve found over the years that help make GDB more pleasant to use.

  • gdbundle - GDB and LLDB's Missing Plugin Manager

    by Tyler Hoffman

    GDB and LLDB desperately need a way for developers to share scripts, user-interface improvements, and utilities with their peers. This would enable building upon existing work and debugging techniques, progressing the entire community and preventing developers from reinventing the wheel. GDB and LLDB need a plugin manager, and I’d like to introduce to you gdbundle.

  • Managing Developer Environments with Conda

    by Tyler Hoffman

    This post gives an introduction to what Conda is, explains why you should care about keeping your developer environments in sync, and finally provides a walk-through on getting started with Conda to set up a GCC based developer environment.

  • Building a CLI for Firmware Projects using Invoke

    by Tyler Hoffman

    Building a small (or large) command line interface (CLI) for a project is a great way to get an entire team to build, test, debug, and work with a project in the same way using the same set of tools. This post goes into detail about how to think about a project’s CLI and implementing one using the Invoke Python package.

  • Using Python PyPi Packages within GDB/LLDB

    by Tyler Hoffman

    In a previous post, we discussed how to automate some of the more tedious parts of debugging firmware using Python in GDB Scripts. To make these commands more powerful, one could use third-party packages from Python’s PyPi repository. In this post, we will discuss how to properly setup GDB, Python, and optionally virtualenv and then modify the uuid_list_dump command from the post mentioned above to make use of a third party package installed through PyPi.

  • Automate Debugging with GDB Python API

    by Chris Coleman

    Previously we discussed how a significant portion of developer time is spent debugging firmware and how GDB can be a powerful utility for this. In this article we will discuss how to become more efficient at debugging by leveraging GDB’s Python API.