Mirror of the gdb mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
To: "Kotian, Deepak" <Deepak.Kotian@patni.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Debugging a gdb source
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 06:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uad2qsec5.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <374639AB1012AA4C840022842AA95BC2016D1514@ruby.patni.com> (Deepak.Kotian@patni.com)

> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:23:25 +0530
> From: "Kotian, Deepak" <Deepak.Kotian@patni.com>
> 
> I am trying to debug gdb source on Linux using already installed
> dedugger ddd or gdb.
> The source code text does not seem to be in sync with the 
> execution when we do step. How do I get it in sync, please
> let me know. The -g option seems to be set in the Makefile.

Most probably, this happens because GDB is compiled with
optimizations.  I usually find this not to be much of a nuisance, I
just need to remember stepping a couple of times more until the line
I'm interested in stops being printed by GDB as the current line; then
I know that this line's code finished being executed, and the
variables whose values it modifies can be examined.

If you are annoyed by this, I suggest to rebuild GDB without
optimizations.  Caveat emptor: doing so might cause the problems you
are debugging to go away.  That is why I suggest to get used to
debugging the optimized code.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-09  5:48 Kotian, Deepak
2004-03-09  6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-03-09  6:54   ` linker dies building GDB (ppc64) Manoj Iyer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=uad2qsec5.fsf@elta.co.il \
    --to=eliz@elta.co.il \
    --cc=Deepak.Kotian@patni.com \
    --cc=gdb@sources.redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox