From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: "Kiran Pradeep" <kiran.happy@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: editing source files in gdb
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17795.43881.874312.195558@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e2feee40612160009v6cc314efk86888be0c2413d37@mail.gmail.com>
> The problem is that when i give 'edit' from inside gdb to edit the
> current source file, gdb is opening a new file in the editor under a
> different name. The funny thing is that the new file has the name of
> the absolute path of the file with a slash between directory and file
> missing. For eg: if file 'test.cpp' is in directory '/home/kiran' then
> gdb is opening the file as /home/kirantest.cpp. Could any one help me
> in this ?
You don't say what version of GDB this is. I see what you do for 6.3 but
not GDB in CVS (6.6.50.20061210-cvs). Perhaps updating to a newer GDB will
solve your problem.
> This feature (coupled with make from inside gdb) would be useful to me
> as dont have to exit from gdb for editing the source file if i find a
> mistake in my code.
As a side note, the mode that I'm writing for Emacs tries to achieve this too.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-16 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-16 8:09 Kiran Pradeep
2006-12-16 8:21 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2006-12-16 9:58 ` Kiran Pradeep
2006-12-16 17:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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