Chris, Thanks - I see your point.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Christopher Miller < lordsauronthegr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Scott Vargovich wrote: > > Here's what gdb shows: > > <command line> > scott@enigma1:~$ gdb xiphos > GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2-1ubuntu11) 7.2 > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < > http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" > and "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu". > For bug reporting instructions, please see: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... > Reading symbols from /usr/bin/xiphos...(no debugging symbols found)...done. > (gdb) > </command line> > > I did read the man page, but not sure how to proceed from here. HELP??? > > > GDB is only going to be useful if you have the debugging symbols for the > program you're trying to debug. > > When the compiler emits the final machine code, it has the option of > emitting a (lot) of additional information in the execution binary which > illustrates function names and variable offsets. It helps tie the source > code to the generated code. GDB uses this to say "Hey, this pointer here > named 'foo' defined on line 23 of file bar.c goes to garbage data" instead > of "Hey, this pointer here at memory offset 0xfff923a23 goes to garbage > data!" > > Overall, unless you're interested in learning a lot about programming and > the dark arts of debugging, I strongly recommend you just submit a bug > report. For a userland application like what you're using, the probability > that they'd have a debug build in the repo is about nil; you'd have to > download the source yourself and build it. And at that point, what's the > point? Then you'd just get a more up-to-date version that probably works > better anyways. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- <>< Scott Vargovich <>< ------------------------------------------ OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E ------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
