Debugging with GDB (February 2008)
Table Of Contents
- Summary of GDB
- A Sample GDB Session
- Getting In and Out of GDB
- GDB Commands
- Running Programs Under GDB
- Stopping and Continuing
- Examining the Stack
- Examining Source Files
- Examining Data
- Using GDB with Different Languages
- Examining the Symbol Table
- Altering Execution
- GDB Files
- Specifying a Debugging Target
- HP-UX Configuration-Specific Information
- Summary of HP Enhancements to GDB
- HP-UX dependencies
- Supported Platforms and Modes
- HP-UX targets
- Support for Alternate root
- Specifying object file directories
- Fix and continue debugging
- Inline Support
- Debugging Macros
- Debugging Memory Problems
- When to suspect a memory leak
- Memory debugging restrictions
- Memory Debugging Methodologies
- Debugging Memory in Interactive Mode
- Debugging Memory in Batch Mode
- Debugging Memory Interactively After Attaching to a Running Process
- Configuring memory debugging settings
- Scenarios in memory debugging
- Stop when freeing unallocated or deallocated blocks
- Stop when freeing a block if bad writes occurred outside block boundary
- Stop when a specified block address is allocated or deallocated
- Scramble previous memory contents at malloc/free calls
- Detect dangling pointers and dangling blocks
- Detect in-block corruption of freed blocks
- Specify the amount of guard bytes for every block of allocated memory
- Comparison of Memory Debugging Commands in Interactive Mode and Batch Mode
- Heap Profiling
- Memory Checking Analysis for User Defined Memory Management Routines
- Commands to track the change in data segment value
- Thread Debugging Support
- Debugging MPI Programs
- Debugging multiple processes ( programs with fork and vfork calls)
- Debugging Core Files
- Printing the Execution Path Entries for the Current Frame or Thread
- Invoking GDB Before a Program Aborts
- Aborting a Command Line Call
- Instruction Level Stepping
- Enhanced support for watchpoints and breakpoints
- Debugging support for shared libraries
- Language support
- Enhanced Java Debugging Support
- Commands for Examining Java Virtual Machine(JVM) internals
- Support for stack traces in Java, C, and C++ programs
- Support for 64-bit Java, C, aC++ stack unwinding
- Enhanced support for C++ templates
- Support for __fpreg data type on IPF
- Support for _Complex variables in HP C
- Support for debugging namespaces
- Command for evaluating the address of an expression
- Viewing Wide Character Strings
- Support for output logging
- Getting information from a non-debug executable
- Debugging optimized code
- Visual Interface for WDB
- Starting and stopping Visual Interface for WDB
- Navigating the Visual Interface for WDB display
- Specifying foreground and background colors
- Using the X-window graphical interface
- Using the TUI mode
- Changing the size of the source or debugger pane
- Using commands to browse through source files
- Loading source files
- Editing source files
- Editing the command line and command-line history
- Saving the contents of a debugging session to a file
- Support for ddd
- Support for XDB commands
- GNU GDB Logging Commands
- Support for command line calls in a stripped executable
- Displaying the current block scope information
- Linux support
- The HP-UX Terminal User Interface
- XDB to WDB Transition Guide
- By-function lists of XDB commands and HP WDB equivalents
- Overall breakpoint commands
- XDB data formats and HP WDB equivalents
- XDB location syntax and HP WDB equivalents
- XDB special language operators and HP WDB equivalents
- XDB special variables and HP WDB equivalents
- XDB variable identifiers and HP WDB equivalents
- Alphabetical lists of XDB commands and HP WDB equivalents
- Controlling GDB
- Canned Sequences of Commands
- Using GDB under gnu Emacs
- GDB Annotations
- The gdb/mi Interface
- Function and purpose
- Notation and terminology
- gdb/mi Command Syntax
- gdb/mi compatibility with CLI
- gdb/mi output records
- gdb/mi command description format
- gdb/mi breakpoint table commands
- gdb/mi Data manipulation
- gdb/mi program control
- Miscellaneous GDB commands in gdb/mi
- gdb/mi Stack Manipulation Commands
- gdb/mi Symbol query commands
- gdb/mi Target Manipulation Commands
- gdb/mi thread commands
- gdb/mi tracepoint commands
- gdb/mi variable objects
- Reporting Bugs in GDB
- Installing GDB
- Index
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14.10.8.1 Stop when freeing unallocated or
deallocated blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
14.10.8.2 Stop when freeing a block if bad writes
occurred outside block boundary . . . . . . . . . . 147
14.10.8.3 Stop when a specified block address is
allocated or deallocated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
14.10.8.4 Scramble previous memory contents at
malloc/free calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
14.10.8.5 Detect dangling pointers and dangling
blocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
14.10.8.6 Detect in-block corruption of freed blocks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
14.10.8.7 Specify the amount of guard bytes for
every block of allocated memory . . . . . . . . . . 149
14.10.9 Comparison of Memory Debugging Commands in
Interactive Mode and Batch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
14.10.10 Heap Profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
14.10.10.1 Commands for heap profiling . . . . . . 152
14.10.10.2 info heap arena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
14.10.10.3 info heap arena [0 |1|2|..] blocks
stacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
14.10.10.4 info module ADDRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
14.10.10.5 info heap process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
14.10.10.6 Example for heap profiling. . . . . . . . . 153
14.10.11 Memory Checking Analysis for User Defined
Memory Management Routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
14.10.12 Commands to track the change in data segment
value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
14.11 Thread Debugging Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
14.11.1 Support for Enabling and Disabling Specific
Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
14.11.2 Backtrace Support for Thread Debugging . . . . 156
14.11.3 Advanced Thread Debugging Support . . . . . . . . 156
14.11.3.1 Pre-requisites for Advanced Thread
Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
14.11.3.2 Enabling and Disabling Advanced
Thread Debugging Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
14.11.3.3 Commands to view information on
pthread primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
14.11.4 Debugging Threads Interactively After Attaching
to a Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
14.11.5 Thread Debugging in Batch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 161
14.11.5.1 Pre-requisites for Batch mode of Thread
Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
14.11.5.2 Limitations in Batch mode of thread
debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
14.11.6 Known issues with Thread Debugging for
Interactive and Batch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163