Re: git compile with debug symbols

From: Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@yahoo.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2014, 06:27 UTC
Message-ID: <1394000820.21154.YahooMailNeo@web162905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <8761ntj4ny.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Hello all,
 Thanks for replying back, figured out (offcourse had to search in net) that 'gdb' version I had was 6.7.1 (OS Ubuntu 12.04 LST), not sure how I got this. Then I upgraded gdb to version 7.4-2012.04 and things got going.

thanks, mpujari

On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 10:13 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote: Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@yahoo.com> writes:

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> Thanks David for the reply. I think I need to do more ground work of
> going through how to use gdb.
> Basically I am java programmer and I was trying out to debug git
> source using eclipse CDT and as we do in java, I was trying out to set
> break point but failed with errors as "No line 396 in file "help.c"".
> And using gdb too I end up with same error.
>
> # (gdb) break help.c:396
> # No line 396 in file "help.c".
>
>
> Am I missing something.

There is just no line 396 known to gdb. It seems like you are indicating a function header. That's not code. Either take the function _name_ rather than a line number (that's usually most reliable) or take the first line of actual code.

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David Kastrup