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Debug problem
user name
2008-03-03 12:46:05
HELLO, IM PRETTY NEW TO GDB AND LINUX OVERALL. I AM TRYING
TO DEBUG MY 'FIRST' 
PROGRAM USING GDB. I COMPILED A SIMPLE HELLOWORLD PROGRAM
USING "GCC -G 
HELLO.C". THE DEBUGGING "WORKS" SINCE I CAN
STEP THROUGH THE CODE BUT INSTEAD 
OF PRINTING THE NEXT LINE TO BE EXECUTED PROPERLY WHILE IM
STEPPING, GDB 
PRINTS SOMETHING UNREADABLE AS SEEN BELOW : 

BREAKPOINT 1, MAIN () AT HELLO.C:20
–’–’/HOME/NISMAEL/MY
PROGRAMS/HELLOWORLD/HELLO.C:20:277:BEG:0X804844A

IM USING N TO STEP THROUGH THE CODE AND THE CODE IM STEPPING
THROUGH HAS 
DEFINITELY BEEN COMPILED FOR DEBUGGING (-G). ANY IDEAS ON
WHAT IM DOING 
WRONG?

THX! 

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Re: Debug problem
country flaguser name
United States
2008-03-03 14:07:16
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:46:05PM -0500, Thierry Bouchard
wrote:
> Hello, Im pretty new to GDB and Linux overall. I am
trying to debug my 'first' 
> program using GDB. I compiled a simple helloworld
program using "gcc -g 
> Hello.c". The debugging "works" since I
can step through the code but instead 
> of printing the next line to be executed properly while
Im stepping, gdb 
> prints something unreadable as seen below : 
> 
> Breakpoint 1, main () at Hello.c:20
> â–’â–’/home/nismael/My
Programs/HelloWorld/Hello.c:20:277:beg:0x804844a

How did you start GDB?  Do you have a bad .gdbinit file? 
You seem to
be in annotation mode.

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