From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18691 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2007 19:54:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 18680 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jan 2007 19:54:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:54:48 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H4jX1-00030s-K0; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:54:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:54:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Markus Deuling Cc: GDB Discuss Subject: Re: Debug the Debugger Message-ID: <20070110195443.GA11558@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Markus Deuling , GDB Discuss References: <45A542CC.2090906@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45A542CC.2090906@de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 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