CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Wednesday, 3 May 2023

+ Bomb assignment, brief setup
- Reminder: registers + memory
- Essential gdb concepts & commands
    - breakpoints
        - br line-number
        - br *0xADDRESS
        - clear line-number, *0xADDRESS
    - layout asm / layout src
    - run vs. continue
    - stepi/si vs. nexti/ni
    - info reg [regname] / i r [regname]
    - examine / x and its enormous number of variants
        - Start with:
            x/20xw $rsp  <-- to see the top of the stack as ints
            x/20xg $rsp  <-- to see the top of the stack as longs
            x/1ss 0xADDRESS  <-- to see a null-terminated string

+ Go forth and do the lab

+ Stuff to watch out for
- important: keep memory and registers straight in your head
- x syntax variations
- how does "little-endian" manifest itself?
- ...