About This is a tutorial, with working examples. The companion document “Debuggin Plugins” is a reference. It describes Gimp’s support to analyze plugins. The audience is plugin authors. We use the verb “analyze” to mean “use a tool: gdb or valgrind.” The tools wrap the program under test. Background This section describes the system in which you analyze plugins. Plugins and Gimp are separate processes Plugins are separate processes that remotely call Gimp in another process.