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Re: How do you debug gdb?
- From: "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn at gpvno dot co dot za>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:53:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: How do you debug gdb?
- References: <fpavs9$sa7$1@ger.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: gerritvn at gpvno dot co dot za,gpvno at telkomsa dot net
On 17 Feb 2008 at 20:00, Ray Hurst wrote:
> It seemed that this question was better suited for the development group
> than in the general group.
>
> How do you debug gdb?
>
> In other words, if I have a problem with gdb itself how do I go about
> debugging the issue?
>
You first have to build GDB with symbols, so you run "config" and then
"make".
If you debug gdb right in the directory it was created, you automatically get a
script loaded which will differentiate between a breakpoint being hit in gdb
and in the debug target.