From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:43:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git compile with debug symbols
Message-ID: <8761ntj4ny.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <1393950801.57403.YahooMailNeo@web162903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@yahoo.com> 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