Debugging_with_GDB.pdf

Debugging with GDB

This file documents the GNU debugger GDB.

This is the Tenth Edition, of

Debugging with GDB: the GNU Source-Level

Debugger

for GDB (GDB) Version 7.8.50.20140825-cvs.

Copyright © 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document

under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or

any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the

Invariant Sections being “Free Software” and “Free Software Needs

Debugging with GDB

This file describes GDB, the GNU symbolic debugger.

This is the Tenth Edition, for GDB (GDB) Version 7.8.50.20140825-cvs.

Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This edition of the GDB manual is dedicated to the memory of Fred Fish.

Fred was a long-standing contributor to GDB and to Free software in

general. We will miss him.

• Summary: Summary of GDB

• Sample Session: A sample GDB session

• Invocation: Getting in and out of GDB

• Stack: Examining the stack

• Source: Examining source files

• Data: Examining data

• Optimized Code: Debugging optimized code

• Macros: Preprocessor Macros

• Tracepoints: Debugging remote targets non-intrusively

• Overlays: Debugging programs that use overlays

• Languages: Using GDB with different languages

• Symbols: Examining the symbol table

• Altering: Altering execution

• Interpreters: Command Interpreters

• TUI: GDBText User Interface

• Emacs: Using GDB under GNU Emacs

• GDB/MI: GDB’s Machine Interface.

• Annotations: GDB’s annotation interface.

• JIT Interface: Using the JIT debugging interface.

• In-Process Agent: In-Process Agent

• GDB Bugs: Reporting bugs in GDB

• Command Line Editing: Command Line Editing

• Using History

Using History Interactively

• Installing GDB: Installing GDB

• Trace File Format: GDB trace file format

• Index Section Format: .gdb_index section format

• Man Pages: Manual pages

• Copying: GNU General Public License says how you can

copy and share GDB

• GNU Free Documentation

License:

The license for this documentation

• Command and Variable

Index of GDB commands, variables, functions,

Table of Contents

Summary of GDB

2 Getting In and Out of GDB

2.1 Invoking GDB

3 GDB Commands

4.12 Setting a

Bookmark

8 Examining the Stack

9 Examining Source Files

10.9 Pretty Printing