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Use Conditional Breakpoints and Watchpoints in GDB

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Implementation

Write a C program with a loop and variables that documents and demonstrates GDB advanced breakpoint concepts through its output.

Requirements:

Include a loop that iterates with a counter
Include variables that change value
Print explanations of what each GDB command does
Output must mention conditional breakpoints, watchpoints, and catchpoints
Show how to set breakpoints by line, function, and address

Why This Matters

Kernel developers and glibc maintainers rely daily on exactly these GDB features - conditional breakpoints and hardware watchpoints - to isolate bugs in codebases too large to step through line by line. `catch syscall` is the same mechanism strace builds on, and hardware watchpoints are what let you catch the exact instruction that corrupts a heap chunk in a use-after-free bug.

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main.c

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