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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com>
Cc: GDB Discuss <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Debug the Debugger
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110195443.GA11558@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A542CC.2090906@de.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:47:24PM +0100, Markus Deuling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try debugging gdb with gdb. GDB Internals Manual (19.2, p.96) says "The 
> info command, when executed without a subcommand in a GDB being debugged by 
> gdb, will pop you backup to the top leve gdb."
> 
> But it doesn't :-(

This relies on a breakpoint on info_command.  The gdbinit file in the
gdb object directory sets that up.  If you run GDB from anywhere else,
you won't get it.

Like Paul, I usually use C-c.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-10 19:47 Markus Deuling
2007-01-10 19:52 ` Paul Koning
2007-01-10 19:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-01-10 19:58   ` Markus Deuling
2007-02-21 21:57     ` Michael Snyder

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