GDB question

[seanken]

Hi All,

Second question in 2 days...getting my money's worth.

I (and more worringly, my team lead) think that its time I progressed from inserting printf's to debug code to using a proper debugging tool. From the dim & distant past, I remember using dbx but since I don't have that on my server, I am trying to use GDB instead.

What I would like to know is when i run the gdb command passing in the executable, how can i link the source code so I can see where in the program I am in order to add breaks, etc?

Currently i simply do:

$>> gdb main

and get the following:

blah, blah ...Wildebeest was built for PA-RISC 1.1 or 2.0 (narrow), HP-UX 11.00...(no debugging symbols found)...


Should I recompile the code in some 'debug' mode (seems to ring a bell (-g option??))?. Any advise, etc, gratefully received.

Thanks & rgds,
Sean

 

[MaheshRathi]

Hi,

Yeah that's true. Use -g option with gcc while compiling the code. Then you can see the source code with command "list" in gdb. By the way, you only answered your own question

regards,
Mahesh

 

[seanken]

I'm a helpful sort of guy!!

Thanks,
Sean