Re: No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command. --- new to gdb: please help !

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-09T21:49:52Z

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:48:13PM -0500, Grazia Russo-Lassner wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I am trying to debug a program, but when I enter a breakpoint I get
> No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command.
>
> This is what I do:
> gdb filename-of-executable
> break 48 #to break at line 48
>
> then I get:
> No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command.
>
> Could someone help ?

Probably your binary does not contain debug information. Try
recompiling with -g.

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