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has caused the Debian Bug report #438912,
regarding gdb: unable to set breakpoint if path to source file contains
parenthesis
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Package: gdb
Version: 6.4.90.dfsg-1
Severity: normal
unable to set breakpoint if path to source file contains parenthesis.
I think that gdb is inproperly handles parenthesis in a file name.
al@gaa:/tmp/dirname(comment)/integration/v1.0-integration$ gdb
GNU gdb 6.4.90-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
(gdb) file build/debug/bin/dis
Reading symbols from
/tmp/dirname(comment)/integration/v1.0-integration/build/debug/bin/dis...done.
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) break /tmp/dirname(comment)/integration/v1.0-integration/gui/main.cpp:29
Function "/tmp/dirname(comment)" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) n
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.3
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdb depends on:
ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries
gdb recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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I can't reproduce this on GDB 16.3:
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(gdb) break /root/aaa/test(paren)/1.c:3
Breakpoint 1 at 0x114d: file 1.c, line 5.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /root/aaa/test(paren)/a.out
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Breakpoint 1, main () at 1.c:5
5 printf("%d\n", errno);
(gdb)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Closing the bug.
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