From: Mahesh Pujari Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 06:27:00 GMT Subject: Re: git compile with debug symbols 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 wrote: Mahesh Pujari writes: > 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. -- David Kastrup