From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32220 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2008 08:12:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 32212 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Feb 2008 08:12:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ms9.webland.ch (HELO ms9.webland.ch) (194.209.78.139) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:11:51 +0000 Received: from indel.ch ([84.73.31.146]) by ms9.webland.ch (Webland.MailServer.v.8.9.6) with ASMTP id YKD92947 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:11:47 +0100 Received: from FABI.indel.ch [192.168.1.91] by indel.ch [127.0.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:11:11 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.1.20080218090956.01dafbc0@localhost> X-Sender: cenedese@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 [via SMTPAuth 0.9, bisswanger.com] Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:54:00 -0000 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Fabian Cenedese Subject: Re: How do you debug gdb? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com X-Return-Path: cenedese@indel.ch 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: 2008-02/txt/msg00124.txt.bz2 At 20:00 17.02.2008 -0800, Ray Hurst wrote: >It seemed that this question was better suited for the development group than in the general group. > >How do you debug gdb? > >In other words, if I have a problem with gdb itself how do I go about debugging the issue? You should be able to do it the same as with every other program: load gdb in gdb and then load some other program in the gdb being debugged. To debug gdb it should contain the debug symbols. bye Fabi