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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2007-11-16 11:27:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2007-11-16 11:27:24 +0100 |
| commit | 0236ca1a672dc742a04f02b86aa06b4187a6c6f4 (patch) | |
| tree | feb3c0eb7e46579a553e55555c685cbf4e074274 /hurd | |
| parent | 151addab435499a77dd5d0d4fe13e4ab10ed60dd (diff) | |
Make general GDB bits a top-level page.
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/debugging/gdb.mdwn | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/debugging/gdb/backtrace.mdwn | 27 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/debugging/gdb.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/gdb.mdwn index f01a5461..ea5ef857 100644 --- a/hurd/debugging/gdb.mdwn +++ b/hurd/debugging/gdb.mdwn @@ -6,14 +6,8 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] -The [GNU debugger *GDB*](http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/) works on GNU/Hurd +The [[GNU_debugger_*GDB*|/gdb]] works on GNU/Hurd systems as it does on other system, but has some additional [hurd-specific features](http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_19.html#Hurd%20Native) to offer, such as [[noninvasive_debugging]] (for avoiding [[deadlock]]s), for example. - -* [[Backtrace]]s - -* [Manual](http://sourceware.org/gdb/documentation/) - -* [When disassemble doesn't work](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-02/msg00039.html) diff --git a/hurd/debugging/gdb/backtrace.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/gdb/backtrace.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 158031c4..00000000 --- a/hurd/debugging/gdb/backtrace.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] -[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] - -When someone asks you to supply a backtrace (from a [[segmentation_fault]], for -example), here is roughly what you have to do. - -Run the faulting program like this: - - $ gdb --args PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS] - [...] - (gdb) run - [...] - [Segmentation fault.] - (gdb) bt - [...] - -(!) This will only provide useful information if the executable (and additional -libraries) contain debugging symbols, or those are available separartely. - -If you're one a [[Debian_GNU/Hurd_system|running/distrib/debian]], you'll have -to have the *hurd-dbg* package installed for debugging Hurd stuff, and perhaps -*libc0.3-dbg* as well if it's inside the glibc. |