GNUPro Toolkit Documentation|Index|Next Debugging with GDB  The GNU source-level debugger    Copyright © 1988-1997  Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this documentation  provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this documentation  under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the entire resulting derived  work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this documentation into  another language, under the above conditions for modified versions. Free Software Foundation 59 Temple Place    Suite 330 Boston, MA        02111-1307        USA Send bugs and comments on GDB to: bug-gdb@prep.ai.mit.edu. This documentation has been prepared by Cygnus Technical Publications; contact the  Cygnus Solutions Technical Publications staff: doc@cygnus.com. Copyright © 1993- 1997  Cygnus Solutions. All rights reserved. GNUPro™, the GNUPro™ logo, and the Cygnus Solutions logo are trademarks of  Cygnus Solutions.  All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective  owners. The following documentation details the GNU source level debugger, GDB. Summary of GDB GDB as free software Contributors to GDB Installing GDB Compiling GDB in another directory Specifying names for hosts and targets configure options Controlling GDB Prompt Command editing Command history Screen size Numbers Optional warnings and messages Getting in and out of GDB Invoking GDB Choosing files Choosing modes Quitting GDB Shell commands GDB commands Command syntax Command completion Getting help Running programs under GDB Compiling for debugging Starting your program Your program’s arguments Your program’s environment Your program’s working directory Your program’s input and output Debugging an already-running process Killing the child process Additional process information Debugging programs with multiple threads Debugging programs with multiple processes Stopping and continuing Breakpoints, watchpoints, and exceptions Setting breakpoints Setting watchpoints Breakpoints and exceptions Deleting breakpoints Disabling breakpoints Break conditions Breakpoint command lists Breakpoint menus Continuing and stepping Signals Stopping and starting multi-thread programs Examining the stack Stack frames Backtraces Selecting a frame Information about a frame MIPS machines and the function stack Examining source files Printing source lines Searching source files Specifying source directories Source and machine code Examining data Expressions Program variables Artificial arrays Output formats Examining memory Automatic display Print settings Value history Convenience variables Registers Floating point hardware Using GDB with different languages Switching between source languages List of filename extensions and languages Setting the working language Having GDB infer the source language Displaying the language Type and range checking An overview of type checking An overview of range checking Supported languages C and C++ Modula-2 Examining the symbol table Altering execution Assignment to variables Continuing at a different address Giving your program a signal Returning from a function Calling program functions Patching programs GDB files Commands to specify files Errors reading symbol files Specifying a debugging target Active targets Commands for managing targets Choosing target byte order Remote debugging The GDB remote serial protocol The UDI protocol for AMD29K The EBMON protocol for AMD29K GDB with a Tandem ST2000 GDB and VxWorks GDB and SPARClet GDB and Hitachi microprocessors GDB and remote MIPS boards Simulated CPU target Canned sequences of commands User-defined commands User-defined command hooks Command files Commands for controlled output Using GDB under GNU Emacs Reporting bugs in GDB Have you found a bug? How to report bugs Command line editing Introduction to line editing Readline interaction Readline bare essentials Readline movement commands Readline killing commands Readline arguments Readline init file Readline init syntax Letting Readline type for you Readline vi mode Using history interactively History interaction Event designators Word designators Modifiers Formatting documentation Index Top|Next <