<story><title>&quot;Unstripping&quot; binaries: Restoring debugging information in GDB with Pwndbg</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/09/06/unstripping-binaries-restoring-debugging-information-in-gdb-with-pwndbg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>&lt;i&gt;GDB loses significant functionality when debugging binaries that lack debugging symbols&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;IMHO from experience with other debuggers, GDB is actually hostile to debugging at the Asm level, due to many perplexing design choices which may or may not be deliberate. Things like needing to add a superfluous asterisk when breakpointing on an address, the &amp;quot;disassemble&amp;quot; command not being able to do what it says and instead complaining about a lack of functions, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>&quot;Unstripping&quot; binaries: Restoring debugging information in GDB with Pwndbg</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/09/06/unstripping-binaries-restoring-debugging-information-in-gdb-with-pwndbg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>I read “pwndgb” as Welsh for a good 5 seconds before realising which site I was on.</text></comment>