It’s useful for simple breakpoint automation and conditional breakpoints, as well as basically adding virtual print statements to programs (the printf command i

It’s useful for simple breakpoint automation and conditional breakpoints, as well as basically adding virtual print statements to programs (the printf command in GDB is very powerful). I also used it to find a complex bug that someone posted here on HN once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031581 Also, GDB supports Python scripting too, which is really good since you can use the full power of Python with a decent debugger API; many of the plugins I use frequently (e.g. GEF - https://github.com/hugsy/gef https://github.com/hugsy/gef) are written using the Python GDB API.