Re: touch and go breakpoints?

[Peter Barada <peter@baradas.org>]

>Is there a way I can set a breakpoint, where if it is hit, gdb will execute 
>some command, and then continue?

Yes.  Look up the 'command' command syntax.  Here's an example using
the simple testfile:

#include <stdio.h>
int foo(x)
{
  return x+x+1;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int i, val, lim;

  val = atoi(argv[1]);
  lim = atoi(argv[2]);
  for (i=0; i<lim; ++i)
    val = foo(val);
  printf("val is %d\n", val);
}


And its run:

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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(gdb) b foo
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048443: file test.c, line 4.
(gdb) command foo
No breakpoint number 0.
(gdb) command 1
Type commands for when breakpoint 1 is hit, one per line.
End with a line saying just "end".
>p x
>c
>end
(gdb) run 1 10
Starting program: /tmp/a.out 1 5

Breakpoint 1, foo (x=1) at test.c:4
$1 = 1

Breakpoint 1, foo (x=3) at test.c:4
$2 = 3

Breakpoint 1, foo (x=7) at test.c:4
$3 = 7

Breakpoint 1, foo (x=15) at test.c:4
$4 = 15

Breakpoint 1, foo (x=31) at test.c:4
$5 = 31

Program exited with code 014.
(gdb)

-- 
Peter Barada
peter@baradas.org