GNU Project Debugger: More fun with GDB

Feature#1: User-defined Commands

 

 

http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/

http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Define.html#Define

 

Source Code: test.c

 

 

#include <stdio.h> int var1 = 0; int var2 = 0; int main (int argc, char **argv) { var1 = 5; var2 = 10; return 0; }  

 

Debug Call: test.gdb

define print_var print $arg0 end document print_var print_var print the variable value end  

Feature#2: debug a active process(/user/test.c) which has been in gdb

 

1. kill the gdb process

2. gdb  /user/test     =>    (should be full path of binary)

3. attach pid             =>    (the pid of binary, "ps + grep" to get it)

4. source test.gdb    =>    (load our own gdb commands)