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From: Grazia Russo-Lassner <glassner@umiacs.umd.edu>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
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Subject: Re: how to debug functions called from other classes
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Hello Jim,


On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Jim Blandy wrote:

> On 12/10/05, Grazia Russo-Lassner <glassner@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote:
>> the function BuildVcb is where the error message of my code comes from:
>>
>> line50 : parser->BuildVcb(arg1, arg2);
>
> So, 'BuildVcb' is a method of whatever class 'parser' points to; and
> when you call 'parser->BuildVcb', that code prints an error message;
> is that right?

 	the code exits  and  prints out the error message that was
 	coded 	in that function.
 	I know it has to do with the input file to that function,
 	BuildVcb.
 	I cannot pinpoint the input line that is breaking the code.

 	grazia
>
> What does GDB do when you reach line 50 and type 'step' to step into
> the method call?  Can you show us a transcript?
>