Writing to the console is good if you have a console, and don&#x27;t need to stop the program and examine the state of memory, files, processes immediately before the problem occurs.  Otherwise it&#x27;s a big fail.<p>Are we supposed to believe that some people can understand unix, c++ etc but cannot learn&#x2F;keep a cheatsheet handy so they can employ the ~10 commands needed to use gdb fruitfully?