Re: tracing ( was Re: what are gdbstubs?)

[Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot radhakrishnan at codito dot com>]

Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> james osburn wrote:
>
> > no actually i am very very new to using
> > gdb so no i didnt know about scripting the
> > break points. how does that work?
> > jim
>
>
> Its like this  . Look at the commands command for gdb .
>
> So at each program point if you specify the variables of interest for 
> you, you could generate the following set of commands for the same.
>
> break <location>
> commands
>  > p <variable>
>  > p $eax
>  > p $ebx
>  > end

and I failed to add that you can put this into a file called 
foo and from the gdb command line use the command  source foo.


> etc.
>
> or you could use the display command for each of the variables that you 
> wish to see and then single step as many instructions / source lines as 
> you want.
>
>
> cheers
> Ramana


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