Re: debugging info with -g option

[Stephen Rasku]

Anumula Venkat wrote:
>
>Hi ,
>
>  That is what i want to know. What type of debugging
>info the compiler will add to object or exe file when
>compiled with -g option..
>Please reply me..
>

If you compile with -g, you will be able to step through the program 
line by line with gdb.  If you don't have -g, you won't be able to do 
this.

>From http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html:


GDB can do four main kinds of things (plus other things in support of 
these) to help you catch bugs in the act: 

    - Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its 
      behavior. 
    - Make your program stop on specified conditions. 
    - Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped. 
    - Change things in your program, so you can experiment with 
      correcting the effects of one bug and go on to learn
      about another. 

For instructions on how to use gdb, go to:

        http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb_toc.html
        
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