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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Smith John <horserivers@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: .gdbini file
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vcgpddpa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJR88pj5vq0H8h70FYcnw7hajqD2VfijjOkVky+_gaKKdtGL-Q@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:30:23 +0800
> From: Smith John <horserivers@gmail.com>
> 
>           I am debugging  gdb  with  itself ,  how can I use  the
> gdbinit  file  in the  gdb  source directory?

Either type the "source /path/to/.gdbinit" command at the GDB prompt,
or start GDB from the directory of that file, so that it is loaded
automatically.

> or what role does this file play on ?

It defines several defaults and commands useful for debugging GDB.
It's a text file, so you can read it and see what it does.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-11  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-11  7:30 Smith John
2012-08-11  8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-08-15 17:35   ` Doug Evans
2012-08-15 18:09     ` Terekhov, Mikhail
2012-08-15 19:32       ` dje
2012-08-15 18:22     ` Tom Tromey

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