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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need some debugging advice ??
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:01:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8x9qatvh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183934967.2857.36.camel@CASE> (message from William Case on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:49:26 -0400)

> From: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:49:26 -0400
> 
> I am looking for advice on learning to use gdb, GUD and friends,
> particularly for 'C'.  I have just read Info re: GUD and gdb, as well as
> the RedHat gdb manual, and 'man' gdb.

Then you've covered most of the preliminaries and are now ready to get
your hands dirty with some experience.

> My confusion is now complete.  

I hope the confusion is just an irony, and not a result of reading
confusing documentation.  If it's the latter, please be sure to report
any confusion as documentation bugs to the appropriate forums.

> I was thinking of starting in a raw terminal using basic gdb commands
> until I had figured out how they work, then graduate to gdb/GUD.  Is
> this a good idea?

Yes, it's an excellent idea.  That's what I did at the time, and I'd
do it again if I had to start anew.

Good luck!

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-08 22:49 Need some debugging advice ?? William Case
2007-07-09  8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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