What is a symbolic debugger? What are some of the facilities provided by it to help you identify bad code in your program?

A symbolic debugger is tool that can be used trace the execution of a program symbolically. usually they also have GUI interfaces. The facilities provided by these symbolic debuggers are:


• running programs
• setting break points
• single stepping
• listing source code
• editing source code
• accessing and modifying variables
• tracing program execution
• displaying activation records on the program stack
• searching for functions, variables and objects
• displaying values of variables and expressions

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