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
lucid Decode based on the Lucid C++
compiler (lcc) encoding algorithm.
arm Decode using the algorithm in the C++
Annotated Reference Manual.
WARNING! This setting alone is not
sufficient to allow debugging cfront
generated executables. GDB would
require further enhancement to permit
that.
If you omit style, you will see a list of
possible formats.
show demangle-style Display the encoding style currently in use for
decoding C++ symbols.
set print object, set print
object on
When displaying a pointer to an object, identify
the actual (derived) type of the object rather than
the declared type, using the virtual function
table.
set print object off Display only the declared type of objects, without
reference to the virtual function table. This is the
default setting.
show print object Show whether actual or declared object types are
displayed.
set print static-members,
set print static-members
on
Print static members when displaying a C++
object. The default is on.
set print static-members
off
Do not print static members when displaying a
C++ object.
show print static-members Show whether C++ static members are printed,
or not.
set print vtbl, set print
vtbl on
Pretty print C++ virtual function tables. The default
is off. (The vtbl commands do not work on
programs compiled with the HP ANSI C++
compiler (aCC).)
set print vtbl off Do not pretty print C++ virtual function tables.
show print vtbl Show whether C++ virtual function tables are
pretty printed, or not.
88 Examining Data