Debugging with GDB (September 2007)

Chapter 21: The gd b/mi Interface 275
Synopsis
-break-insert [ -t ] [ -h ] [ -r ]
[ -c condition ] [ -i ignore-count ]
[ -p thread ] [ line | addr ]
If specified, line, can be one of:
• function
• filename:linenum
• filename:function
• *address
The possible optional parameters of this command are:
‘-t’ Insert a temporary breakpoint.
‘-h’ Insert a hardware breakpoint.
‘-c condition’
Make the breakpoint conditional on condition.
‘-i ignore-count’
Initialize the ignore-count.
‘-r’ Insert a regular breakpoint in all the functions whose names match the given
regular expression. Other flags are not applicable to regular expression.
Result
The result is in the form:
^done,bkptno="number ",func="funcname ",
file="filename ",line="lineno "
where number is the GDB number for this breakpoint, funcname is the name of the function
where the breakpoint was inserted, filename is the name of the source file which contains
this function, and lineno is the source line number w ithin that file.
Note: this format is ope n to change.
GDB command
The corresponding GDB commands are ‘break’, ‘tbreak’, ‘hbreak’, ‘thbreak’, and
‘rbreak’.
Example
(gdb)
-break-insert main
^done,bkpt=number="1",type="breakpoint",disp="keep",enabled="y",addr="0x0001072c",
file="recursive2.c",line="4",times="0"
(gdb)
-break-insert -t foo