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diff --git a/devel/gdb/pkg/DESCR b/devel/gdb/pkg/DESCR index 1f94ea859cc..c7c22076938 100644 --- a/devel/gdb/pkg/DESCR +++ b/devel/gdb/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ - The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what is -going on "inside" another program while it executes--or what another -program was doing at the moment it crashed. - - GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of -these) to help you catch bugs in the act: + The purpose of a debugger such as GDB is to allow you to see what +is going on "inside" another program while it executes--or what +another program was doing at the moment it crashed. + + GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support +of these) to help you catch bugs in the act: * Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior. - - * Make your program stop on specified conditions. + + * Make your program stop on specified conditions. * Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped. - - * Change things in your program, so you can experiment with - correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about another. - + * Change things in your program, so you can experiment with + correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn about + another. |