Debugging with GDB Manual (5900-1473; WDB 6.2; January 2011)
Table Of Contents
- Debugging with GDB Manual
- Contents
- Summary of GDB
- 1 A Sample GDB Session
- 1.1 Loading the Executable
- 1.2 Setting Display width
- 1.3 Setting Breakpoints
- 1.4 Running the executable under GDB
- 1.5 Stepping to the next line in the source program
- 1.6 Stepping into a subroutine
- 1.7 Examining the Stack
- 1.8 Printing Variable Values
- 1.9 Listing Source Code
- 1.10 Setting Variable Values During a Session
- 2 Getting In and Out of GDB
- 3 GDB Commands
- 4 Running Programs Under GDB
- 4.1 Compiling for debugging
- 4.2 Starting your program
- 4.3 Arguments To Your Program
- 4.4 Program Environment
- 4.5 Working directory
- 4.6 Program Input and Output
- 4.7 Debugging a Running Process
- 4.8 Killing the child process
- 4.9 Debugging programs with multiple threads
- 4.10 Debugging programs with multiple processes
- 5 Stopping and Continuing
- 6 Examining the Stack
- 7 Examining Source Files
- 8 Examining Data
- 9 Using GDB with Different Languages
- 10 Examining the Symbol Table
- 11 Altering Execution
- 12 GDB Files
- 13 Specifying a Debugging Target
- 14 HP-UX Configuration-Specific Information
- 14.1 Summary of HP Enhancements to GDB
- 14.2 HP-UX dependencies
- 14.3 Supported Platforms and Modes
- 14.4 HP-UX targets
- 14.5 Support for Alternate root
- 14.6 Specifying object file directories
- 14.7 Fix and continue debugging
- 14.8 Inline Support
- 14.9 Debugging Macros
- 14.10 Debugging Memory Problems
- 14.10.1 When to suspect a memory leak
- 14.10.2 Memory debugging restrictions
- 14.10.3 Memory Debugging Methodologies
- 14.10.4 Debugging Memory in Interactive Mode
- 14.10.5 Debugging Memory in Batch Mode
- 14.10.6 Debugging Memory Interactively After Attaching to a Running Process
- 14.10.7 Open-files reporting
- 14.10.8 Configuring memory debugging settings
- 14.10.9 Scenarios in memory debugging
- 14.10.9.1 Stop when freeing unallocated or deallocated blocks
- 14.10.9.2 Stop when freeing a block if bad writes occurred outside block boundary
- 14.10.9.3 Stop when a specified block address is allocated or deallocated
- 14.10.9.4 Scramble previous memory contents at malloc/free calls
- 14.10.9.5 Detect dangling pointers and dangling blocks
- 14.10.9.6 Detect in-block corruption of freed blocks
- 14.10.9.7 Specify the amount of guard bytes for every block of allocated memory
- 14.10.10 Comparison of Memory Debugging Commands in Interactive Mode and Batch Mode
- 14.10.11 Heap Profiling
- 14.10.12 Memory Checking Analysis for User Defined Memory Management Routines
- 14.10.13 Commands to track the change in data segment value
- 14.10.14 Support for Memory Debugging Feature on Applications Using libmallocng Library for Heap Allocation Management
- 14.11 Thread Debugging Support
- 14.11.1 Support for Enabling and Disabling Specific Threads
- 14.11.2 Backtrace Support for Thread Debugging
- 14.11.3 Advanced Thread Debugging Support
- 14.11.4 Debugging Threads Interactively After Attaching to a Process
- 14.11.5 Thread Debugging in Batch Mode
- 14.11.6 Thread Debugging in +check Mode
- 14.11.7 Known issues with Thread Debugging for Interactive and Batch mode
- 14.12 Debugging MPI Programs
- 14.13 Debugging multiple processes (programs with fork and vfork calls)
- 14.14 Command to Search for a Pattern in the Memory Address Space
- 14.15 Debugging Core Files
- 14.15.1 Generating core files with packcore /unpackcore/getcore
- 14.15.2 Support for the info target Command
- 14.15.3 Support for the dumpcore command
- 14.15.4 Support for display of run time type information
- 14.15.5 Support for Core File Debugging of MITR Applications
- 14.15.5.1 Configuring HP WDB for Mixed Mode Debugging
- 14.15.5.2 Command to Support Core File Debugging in Mixed More Applications
- 14.15.5.3 Change in the Behavior of Existing Commands
- 14.15.5.4 Command and Features Applicable to PA-RISC Libraries
- 14.15.5.5 Known Issues and Unsupported Features in Mixed Mode Debugging
- 14.15.6 Support for mmapfile command
- 14.16 Debugging with debug information available in the side debug file
- 14.17 Printing the Execution Path Entries for the Current Frame or Thread
- 14.18 Command to Unwind Beyond 10000 Frames
- 14.19 Invoking GDB Before a Program Aborts
- 14.20 Aborting a Command Line Call
- 14.21 Instruction Level Stepping
- 14.22 Enhanced support for watchpoints and breakpoints
- 14.23 Debugging support for shared libraries
- 14.23.1 Using shared library as main program
- 14.23.2 Setting Deferred Breakpoints in Shared Library
- 14.23.3 Using catch load
- 14.23.4 Privately mapping shared libraries
- 14.23.5 Selectively Mapping Shared Libraries As Private
- 14.23.6 Setting breakpoints in shared library
- 14.23.7 Enhancement to the info shared Command
- 14.24 Debugging support for Decimal Floating Point data type
- 14.25 Additional Support for binary floating point data type
- 14.26 Language support
- 14.27 Viewing Wide Character Strings
- 14.28 Support for output logging
- 14.29 Getting information from a non-debug executable
- 14.30 Debugging optimized code
- 14.31 Debugging with ARIES
- 14.32 Visual Interface for HP WDB
- 14.32.1 Starting and stopping Visual Interface for HP WDB
- 14.32.2 Navigating the Visual Interface for HP WDB display
- 14.32.3 Specifying foreground and background colors
- 14.32.4 Using the X-window graphical interface
- 14.32.5 Using the TUI mode
- 14.32.6 Changing the size of the source or debugger pane
- 14.32.7 Using commands to browse through source files
- 14.32.8 Loading source files
- 14.32.9 Editing source files
- 14.32.10 Editing the command line and command-line history
- 14.32.11 Saving the contents of a debugging session to a file
- 14.33 Support for ddd
- 14.34 Support for XDB commands
- 14.35 GDB Logging Commands
- 14.36 Support for command line calls in a stripped executable
- 14.37 Displaying the current block scope information
- 14.38 Linux support
- 14.39 Source level debugging
- 14.40 Support for using old DW-VIRTUALITY values
- 14.41 Additional support for examining registers
- 15 The HP-UX Terminal User Interface
- 16 XDB to HP WDB Transition Guide
- 16.1 By-function lists of XDB commands and HP WDB equivalents
- 16.2 Overall breakpoint commands
- 16.2.1 Auxiliary breakpoint commands
- 16.2.2 Breakpoint creation commands
- 16.2.3 Breakpoint status commands
- 16.2.4 All-procedures breakpoint commands
- 16.2.5 Global breakpoint commands
- 16.2.6 Assertion control commands
- 16.2.7 Record and playback commands
- 16.2.8 Macro facility commands
- 16.2.9 Signal control commands
- 16.2.10 Miscellaneous commands
- 16.3 XDB data formats and HP WDB equivalents
- 16.4 XDB location syntax and HP WDB equivalents
- 16.5 XDB special language operators and HP WDB equivalents
- 16.6 XDB special variables and HP WDB equivalents
- 16.7 XDB variable identifiers and HP WDB equivalents
- 16.8 Alphabetical lists of XDB commands and HP WDB equivalents
- 17 Controlling GDB
- 17.1 Setting the GDB Prompt
- 17.2 Setting Command Editing Options in GDB
- 17.3 Setting Command History Feature in GDB
- 17.4 Setting the GDB Screen Size
- 17.5 Supported Number Formats
- 17.6 Optional warnings and messages
- 17.7 Optional messages about internal happenings
- 17.8 Configuring the Current Application Binary Interface (ABI)
- 18 Canned Sequences of Commands
- 19 Using GDB under gnu Emacs
- 20 GDB Annotations
- 21 The GDB/MI Interface
- 21.1 GDB/MI Command Syntax
- 21.2 GDB/MI compatibility with CLI
- 21.3 GDB/MI output records
- 21.4 GDB/MI command description format
- 21.5 GDB/MI breakpoint table commands
- 21.6 GDB/MI Data manipulation
- 21.7 GDB/MI program control
- 21.8 Miscellaneous GDB commands in GDB/MI
- 21.9 GDB/MI Stack Manipulation Commands
- 21.10 GDB/MI Symbol query commands
- 21.11 GDB/MI Target Manipulation Commands
- 21.12 GDB/MI thread commands
- 21.13 GDB/MI tracepoint commands
- 21.14 GDB/MI variable objects
- 22 Reporting Bugs in GDB
- A Installing GDB
• The thread terminates execution without unlocking the associated mutexes or
read-write locks.
• The thread waits on a condition variable for which the associated mutex is not
locked.
• The thread terminates execution, and the resources associated with the terminated
thread continues to exist in the application because the thread has not been joined
or detached.
• The thread uses more than the specified percentage of the stack allocated to the
thread.
• The number of threads waiting on any pthread object exceeds the specified thresh-
old number.
14.11.3.1 Pre-requisites for Advanced Thread Debugging
The following pre-requisites apply for advanced thread debugging:
• The advanced thread debugging features are supported only on HP-UX 11i v2 and
later on both PA-RISC and Integrity systems.
• The tracing pthread library is required for advanced thread-debugging. The
pthread tracer library is available by default on systems running on HP-UX 11i v2
or later. You must install HP WDB 5.5 or later versions of the debugger to support
enhanced thread debugging. The installation scripts for HP WDB 5.5 and later
versions of the debugger automatically add links at /opt/langtools/lib/ to
replace the standard libpthread library with libpthread tracer library at
run time.
• The thread debugging feature in HP WDB is dependent on the availability of the
dynamic Linker Version B.11.19.
• HP WDB uses librtc.sl to enable thread debugging support. If the debugger is
installed in a directory other than the default /opt/langtools/bin directory,
you must use the environment variable, LIBRTC_SERVER, to export the path of the
appropriate version of librtc.sl.
• HP WDB does not support debugging of programs that link with the archive version
of the standard C library libc.a or the core library libcl.a. The programs must
be linked with libc.sl.
• The advanced thread debugging commands work only if set thread-check is
set to on.
• For PA-RISC 32-bit applications, the dynamic library path look-up must be enabled
for advanced thread debugging. To enable dynamic library path look-up for
advanced thread debugging, enter the following command at HP-UX prompt:
# chatr +s enable <PA32-bitApp>
178 HP-UX Configuration-Specific Information