From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need some debugging advice ?? Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:01:06 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1183934967.2857.36.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183968094 15358 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2007 08:01:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 08:01:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 10:01:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I7oBY-0004XQ-2d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:01:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7oBX-0003S0-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7oBG-0003Ra-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7oBF-0003RI-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7oBF-0003RF-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7oBE-0001K1-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([81.5.32.58]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IHI93612 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:01:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <1183934967.2857.36.camel@CASE> (message from William Case on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:49:26 -0400) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45547 Archived-At: > From: William Case > 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!