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Re: Can somebody help me with gdb.

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From: Peter Sherwood
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 17:46
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George Daswani (gdaswani@silicon.csci.csusb.edu) wrote:
: gdb program

: .. this is the part where i'm stuck..  I can't do anything.  I have
: been using "dbx" for a while and it is good but I would rather use
: gdb...  On dbx when I type step, it goes step by step , etc..  However
: when I do the same on gdb all I get is "program is not running" or
: something like that..  When I type the run command it just runs the
: program but it doesn't do it step by step...  


Here's how I do it: Before typing 'run', set a breakpoint somewhere. If
you want to step from the start of the program, 'b main'. Once you're
at a breakpoint, 'n' steps a single line, 'n N' steps N lines, etc.

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Subject: Re: Can somebody help me with gdb.
Date: 16 Nov 1994 17:46:01 GMT
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