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Re: Does GDB has 'quiet mode', and does GDB has APIs for writing log
- From: Fei Ding <fdingiit at gmail dot com>
- To: "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:22:50 +0800
- Subject: Re: Does GDB has 'quiet mode', and does GDB has APIs for writing log
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The log's content and output file is up to me. For example I want to
log the message `breakpoint hit! EIP is 0x12345` into a file
`breakpoint.log` when a breakpoint is actually hit.
2015-03-30 17:57 GMT+08:00 Fei Ding <fdingiit@gmail.com>:
> I want to manually write log by myself, any APIs?
>
> 2015-03-30 16:09 GMT+08:00 Fei Ding <fdingiit@gmail.com>:
>> And I found
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Logging-Output.html#Logging-Output
>>
>> is helpful, I will check this out first.
>>
>> 2015-03-30 15:33 GMT+08:00 Fei Ding <fdingiit@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi all:
>>>
>>> I've modified GDB to support set breakpoints automatically according
>>> to a file containing all the EIP/RIP address that will be checked (a
>>> litter bit like `gdb -x file` command). But, the amount of breakpoints
>>> is too large, at least 10000, so I do not want to get any output like
>>> `Breakpoint 1, fun2 () at main.c:35` on my screen, I want GDB to be
>>> quiet at this time. Does GDB has something like `quiet mode`? Or, can
>>> I redirect these hints into a file?
>>>
>>> And, I want to write log when GDB is in `quiet mode`, does GDB has any
>>> APIs to support log?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> BR.