Manual page for GDB(1)
gdb - GNU Debugger
SYNOPSIS
gdb [ options ] [ name ] [ core ]
DESCRIPTION
gdb is a source-level symbolic debugger for C programs, created by
Richard M. Stallman for the GNU Project and distributed by the
Free Software Foundation.
gdb has something of the flavor of dbx,
but has more features and power.
GDB is invoked with the shell command gdb.
Once started, it reads commands
from the terminal until you quit by giving the quit command.
name is the name of your executable program, and core,
if specified, is the name of the core dump file to be examined.
gdb has been substantially
modified and extended by NeXT Software, Inc.
to support the use of Objective-C and
Mach.
OPTIONS
If you need to specify more precisely the files to debugged, you can do so
with the following command-line options.
All the options and command line arguments given are processed in
sequential order. The order makes a difference when the -x command is
used.
- -s file
-
Read symbol table from file.
- -e file
-
Use file as the executable file to execute when appropriate,
and for examining pure data in conjunction with a core dump.
- -se file
-
Read symbol table from file and use it as the executable file.
- -c file
-
Use file as a core dump file to examine.
- -x file
-
Execute GDB commands from file.
- -d directory
-
Add directory to the path to search for source files.
The following additional command-line options can be used to affect certain
aspects of the behavior of gdb:
- -nx
-
Don't execute commands from the init files .gdbinit. Normally, the
commands in these files are executed after all the command options and
arguments have been processed.
- -q
-
Quiet. Don't print the usual introductory messages.
- -batch
-
Run in batch mode. Exit with code 1 after processing all the
command files specified with -x (and .gdbinit, if not inhibited).
Exit also if, due to an error, GDB would otherwise attempt to read a command
from the terminal.
- -fullname
-
This option is used when Emacs runs GDB as a subprocess. It
tells GDB to produce the full file name and line number each time a stack
frame is displayed (which includes each time the program stops).
SEE ALSO
cc(1)
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