Re: Slowdown of the response from the command line?

[Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com>]

Hi Asmwarrior,

> Today, I have download the latest snapshot of gdb from:
> ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/current/gdb-7.1.50.20100304.tar.bz2
> And I build gdb.exe(I use TDM GCC 4.4.1 mingw32 on windowsXP) with expat
> enabled. Too bad, I even can't start debugging, when I start debugging, I
> always get the gdb.exe crashed.

I'd recommend one of the 7.0.90.xxxx sources:

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/

I've been using them to try and get Python working for MinGW.

> If I can remember, the gdb.exe built from snapshot of 20100302, 20100301
> always get crashed on startup either.

What do you see when gdb crashes?

> I would prefer some gdb gurus can help. Thanks.

I'm no guru by any means, but in order to create a profiling gdb one
way is to specify CFLAGS at configuration time:

$ CFLAGS="-pg" ../configure ....

Once you have a gdb binary with profiling enabled, it should produce a
profile file (a.out if memory serves), which you can then view using
'gprof a.out'.

Cheers!

Chris

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