gdb tutorials

[grv575]

Know of any good links to get started with gdb?  Tutorials, quickrefs,...

[rickg22]

your friends:

gdb> run

(oooh a crash!)

gdb> bt

gdb> frame 1
(switches to stack frame #1)

gdb> print mylocalvar

(shows you some pointer to an object, to say an example)

gdb> print mylocalvar->something()

I don't know how to set breakpoints.. yet

[pa3k]

maybe these links will help you:

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/debug.html
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/CLanguage/Debug.html

[grv575]

pa3k: great,thx for the links.

also:
http://www.isi.edu/acal/documentation/Tools/gdb.refcard.ps
http://dsl.ee.unsw.edu.au/dsl-cdrom/gnutools/doc/gnu-debugger-quickref.pdf
http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~c201/resources/emacs/refcards/gdb-refcard.pdf

[Funto]

There is a nice GDB tutorial provided with Dev-C++ (:roll:), made by Richard Stallman himself ^^

[rickg22]

why not ask him to refurbish it? "Code::Blocks. No proprietary compilers required" lol

[Funto]

Hmm about debugging in C::B...
Is it possible to debug and watch variables as we can do with VC++? I mean, without having to add manually the variable name in the "Watch" tab...

[mandrav]

Hmm about debugging in C::B...
Is it possible to debug and watch variables as we can do with VC++? I mean, without having to add manually the variable name in the "Watch" tab...

You can place the editor caret over the variable's name you want to watch and [right-click->Watch 'your var'].
Or you can provide more info on what you 'd like to do...

Yiannis.