From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21698 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 20:37:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21691 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 20:37:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.126.134) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 20:37:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 20419 invoked by uid 0); 5 Feb 2003 20:37:53 -0000 Received: from dhcp-79-224.biosci.utexas.edu (129.116.79.224) by umbs-smtp-1 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 20:37:53 -0000 From: christopher j bottaro To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: newbie gdb help... Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:37:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302051438.10934.cjb@cs.utexas.edu> X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00107.txt.bz2 hello, i just started using gdb yesterday. i've read a lot of the manual and to my suprise, gdb is pretty easy to use. i got pretty comfortable navagating thru the stack, the source, setting break and watch points, etc... anyways, i have 2 questions that i couldn't find in the documentation: 1) command to show you what line is about to be executed. sometimes after many print commands, and many list commands, i lose track of where i am in the program's execution. 2) when i resume execution of my program with the continue command, is there anyway to break it again from within gdb? while the program is running (after issuing the continue command), gdb seems to ignore any input i try to tell it. thanks for the help, -- christopher