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Altering Execution

Once you think you have found an error in your program, you might want to find out for certain whether correcting the apparent error would lead to correct results in the rest of the run. You can find the answer by experiment, using the GDB features for altering execution of the program.

For example, you can store new values into variables or memory locations, give your program a signal, restart it at a different address, or even return prematurely from a function.

See the following documentation for more details.

Assignment to variables

Continuing at a different address

Giving your program a signal

Returning from a function

Calling program functions

Patching programs