Re: GDB Not Seeing Sources

[Patrick M. Rutkowski]

Ah, awesome; that did it :-)

I've since learned what exactly annotations are too, interesting.

It would be nice if emacs had given a warning message though, I'll bet
lots of people run into that problem. Though to make a self-criticism,
the --annotate is mentioned in the M-x apropos page for "gdb", I just
didn't read it :-)

-Patrick


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've got an odd problem where a particular usage case of "M-x gdb"
>> isn't following the debugger in the source code buffers.
>>
>> What I did was "M-x gdb", then I ran "attach PID" from within gdb, to
>> attach to my already running program. I did a "break poll" to break in
>> poll (it's server code), and then I did a "continue". It got to the
>> poll, and I did a "finish" to wait for it to get out of the poll. I
>> did get out of the poll, and now I'm successfully stopped from within
>> gdb, on the first line of code after the poll, but it's not following
>> along int the sources!
>>
>> I can type "list" in gdb to get a source listing, but that interface
>> is clunky enough so as to be unusable. That is, after all, why I'm
>> trying to use gdb from within emacs!
>>
>> Is it possible to get it to see sources after an "attach PID"? Or is
>> something fundamentally wrong here?
>>
>
> Try running it with "M-x gdb --annotate=3".
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> Patrick Mahan
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