Debugging with GDB (September 2007)

Chapter 17: Controlling GDB 249
Start it from the beginning? (y or n)
If you are willing to unflinchingly face the consequences of your ow n commands, you can
disable this “feature”:
set confirm off
Disables confirmation requests.
set confirm on
Enables confirmation requests (the default).
show confirm
Displays state of confirmation requests.
17.7 Optional messages about internal happenings
set debug arch
Turns on or off display of gdbarch debugging info. The default is off
show debug arch
Displays the current state of displaying gdbarch debugging information.
set debug event
Turns on or off display of GDB event debugging information. The default is
off.
show debug event
Displays the current state of displaying GDB event debugging info.
set debug expression
Turns on or off display of GDB expression debugging information. The default
is off.
show debug expression
Displays the current state of displaying GDB expression debugging info.
set debug overload
Turns on or off display of GDB C++ overload debugging info. This includes info
such as ranking of functions, etc. The default is off.
show debug overload
Displays the current state of displaying GDB C++ overload debugging info.
set debug remote
Turns on or off display of reports on all packets sent back and forth across the
serial line to the remote machine. The info is printed on the GDB standard
output stream. The default is off.
show debug remote
Displays the state of display of remote packets.
set debug serial
Turns on or off display of GDB serial debugging info. The default is off.