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GDB完全使用手册（针对Unix/Linux调试必备工具）是一本详细介绍了GNU源级调试器GDB的专业指南，适用于第九版，对应于gdb版本7.0.50.20100113。该手册由Richard Stallman、Roland Pesch、Stan Shebs等人编撰，并鼓励读者将问题和反馈提交至GDB官方网站<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>。GDB在Unix编程中占有重要地位，尤其是在Linux环境中，作为强大的调试工具，它弥补了其他工具在功能上的不足。这本书的核心内容深入讲解了如何使用GDB进行源代码级别的调试，包括但不限于设置断点、单步执行、检查变量值、跟踪调用栈等基本操作。对于那些在开发过程中遇到问题的程序员来说，GDB是不可或缺的伙伴，因为它支持多种编程语言，如UC和uc++，使得调试C、C++等程序变得高效且精确。书中包含了丰富的实例和命令行操作说明，以帮助读者掌握GDB的复杂功能，如交互式模式、数据类型查看、内存分析、条件断点设置、远程调试以及使用脚本自动化调试流程等。此外，它还涵盖了GDB的高级特性，如多线程调试、反汇编指令、动态类型检查以及与源代码同步的能力。版权方面，该手册遵循GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.1或更高版本，强调了免费软件的重要性，鼓励读者在尊重版权的前提下自由复制、分发和修改文档。购买GNUPress出版的书籍则对GNU项目的资金支持至关重要，旨在促进软件自由的发展。 GDB完全使用手册是一本实用且深入的教程，对于提升Unix/Linux系统开发者和运维人员的调试能力具有极高的价值，无论是初学者还是经验丰富的专业人士都能从中获益匪浅。通过掌握GDB，用户能够更加有效地诊断和修复程序中的错误，提高代码质量和生产效率。

Chapter 2: Getting In and Out of gdb 11

2 Getting In and Out of gdb

This chapter discusse s how to start gdb, and how to get out of it. The essentials are:

• type ‘gdb’ to start gdb.

• type quit or Ctrl-d to exit.

2.1 Invoking gdb

Invoke gdb by running the program gdb. Once started, gdb reads commands from the

terminal until you tell it to exit.

You can also run gdb with a variety of arguments and options, to specify more of your

debugging environment at the outset.

The command-line options described here are designed to cover a variety of situations;

in some environments, some of these options may eﬀectively be unavailable.

The most usual way to start gdb is with one argument, specifying an executable program:

gdb program

You can also start with both an executable program and a core ﬁle speciﬁed:

gdb program core

You can, instead, specify a process ID as a second argument, if you want to debug a

running process:

gdb program 1234

would attach gdb to process 1234 (unless you also have a ﬁle named ‘1234’; gdb does check

for a core ﬁle ﬁrst).

Taking advantage of the second command-line argument requires a fairly complete op-

erating system; when you use gdb as a remote debugger attached to a bare board, there

may not be any notion of “process”, and there is often no way to get a core dump. gdb

will warn you if it is unable to attach or to read core dumps.

You can optionally have gdb pass any arguments after the executable ﬁle to the inferior

using --args. This option stops option processing.

gdb --args gcc -O2 -c foo.c

This will cause gdb to debug gcc, and to set gcc’s command-line arguments (see hunde-

ﬁnedi [Arguments], page hundeﬁnedi) to ‘-O2 -c foo.c’.

You can run gdb without printing the front material, which describes gdb’s

non-warranty, by specifying -silent:

gdb -silent

You can further control how gdb starts up by using command-line options. gdb itself can

remind you of the options available.

Type

gdb -help

to display all available options and brieﬂy describe their use (‘gdb -h’ is a shorter equiva-

lent).

All options and command line arguments you give are processed in sequential order. The

order makes a diﬀerence when the ‘-x’ option is used.

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2.1.1 Choosing Files

When gdb starts, it reads any arguments other than options as specifying an executable

ﬁle and core ﬁle (or process ID). This is the same as if the arguments were speciﬁed by the

‘-se’ and ‘-c’ (or ‘-p’) options respectively. (gdb reads the ﬁrst argument that does not

have an associated option ﬂag as equivalent to the ‘-se’ option followed by that argument;

and the second argument that does not have an associated option ﬂag, if any, as equivalent

to the ‘-c’/‘-p’ option followed by that argument.) If the second argument begins with a

decimal digit, gdb will ﬁrst attempt to attach to it as a process, and if that fails, attempt

to open it as a coreﬁle. If you have a coreﬁle whose name begins with a digit, you can

prevent gdb from treating it as a pid by preﬁxing it with ‘./’, e.g. ‘./12345’.

If gdb has not been conﬁgured to included core ﬁle support, such as for most embedded

targets, then it w ill complain about a second argument and ignore it.

Many options have both long and short forms; both are shown in the following list. gdb

also recognizes the long forms if you truncate them, so long as enough of the option is

present to be unambiguous. (If you prefer, you can ﬂag option arguments with ‘--’ rather

than ‘-’, though we illustrate the more usual convention.)

-symbols file

-s file Read symbol table from ﬁle ﬁle.

-exec file

-e file Use ﬁle ﬁle as the executable ﬁle to e xec ute when appropriate, and for examining

pure data in conjunction with a core dump.

-se file Read symbol table from ﬁle ﬁle and use it as the executable ﬁle.

-core file

-c file Use ﬁle ﬁle as a core dump to examine.

-pid number

-p number

Connect to process ID number, as with the attach command.

-command file

-x file Execute gdb com mands from ﬁle ﬁle. See hundeﬁnedi [Command ﬁles],

page hundeﬁnedi.

-eval-command command

-ex command

Execute a single gdb command.

This option may be used multiple times to call multiple commands. It may also

be interleaved with ‘-command’ as required.

gdb -ex ’target sim’ -ex ’load’ \

-x setbreakpoints -ex ’run’ a.out

-directory directory

-d directory

Add directory to the path to search for source and script ﬁles.

Chapter 2: Getting In and Out of gdb 13

-r

-readnow Read each symbol ﬁle’s entire symbol table immediately, rather than the default,

which is to read it increm entally as it is needed. This makes startup slower,

but m akes future operations faste r.

2.1.2 Choosing Mode s

You can run gdb in various alternative modes—for example, in batch mode or quiet

mode.

-nx

-n Do not execute commands found in any initialization ﬁles. Normally, gdb exe -

cutes the commands in these ﬁles after all the command options and arguments

have been processed. See hundeﬁnedi [Command Files], page hundeﬁnedi.

-quiet

-silent

-q “Quiet”. Do not print the introductory and copyright messages. These mes-

sages are also suppressed in batch mode.

-batch Run in batch mode. Exit with status 0 after processing all the command ﬁles

speciﬁed with ‘-x’ (and all commands from initialization ﬁles, if not inhibited

with ‘-n’). Exit with nonzero status if an error occurs in executing the gdb

commands in the command ﬁles.

Batch mode may be useful for running gdb as a ﬁlter, for example to download

and run a program on another computer; in order to make this more useful, the

message

Program exited normally.

(which is ordinarily issued whenever a program running under gd b control

terminates) is not issued when running in batch mode.

-batch-silent

Run in batch mode exactly like ‘-batch’, but totally silently. All gdb output to

stdout is prevented (stderr is unaﬀected). This is much quieter than ‘-silent’

and would be useless for an interactive sess ion.

This is particularly useful when using targets that give ‘Loading section’ mes-

sages, for example.

Note that targets that give their output via gdb, as opposed to writing directly

to stdout, will also be made silent.

-return-child-result

The return code from gdb will be the return code from the child process (the

process being debugged), with the following exceptions:

• gdb exits abnormally. E.g., due to an incorrect argument or an internal

error. In this case the exit code is the same as it would have been without

‘-return-child-result’.

• The user quits with an explicit value. E.g., ‘quit 1’.

14 Debugging with gdb

• The child process never runs, or is not allowed to terminate, in which case

the exit code will be -1.

This option is useful in conjunction with ‘-batch’ or ‘-batch-silent’, when

gdb is being used as a remote program loader or simulator interface.

-nowindows

-nw “No windows”. If gdb comes with a graphical user interface (GUI) built in,

then this option tells gdb to only use the command-line interface. If no GUI is

available, this option has no eﬀect.

-windows

-w If gdb includes a GUI, then this option requires it to be used if possible.

-cd directory

Run gdb using directory as its working directory, instead of the current direc-

tory.

-fullname

-f gnu Emacs sets this option when it runs gdb as a subprocess. I t tells gdb to

output the full ﬁle name and line number in a standard, recognizable fashion

each time a stack frame is displayed (which includes each time your program

stops). This recognizable format looks like two ‘\032’ characters, followed by

the ﬁle name, line number and character position separated by colons, and a

newline. The Emacs-to-gdb interface program uses the two ‘\032’ characters

as a signal to display the source code for the frame.

-epoch The Epoch Emacs-gdb interface sets this option when it runs gdb as a subpro-

cess. It tells gdb to modify its print routines so as to allow Epoch to display

values of expressions in a separate window.

-annotate level

This option sets the annotation level inside gd b. Its eﬀect is identical to using

‘set annotate level’ (see hundeﬁnedi [Annotations], page hundeﬁnedi). The

annotation level controls how much information gdb prints together with its

prompt, values of expressions, source lines, and other types of output. Level 0

is the normal, level 1 is for use w hen gdb is run as a subprocess of gnu Emacs,

level 3 is the maximum annotation suitable for programs that control gdb, and

level 2 has been deprecated.

The annotation mechanism has largely been superseded by gdb/mi (see hun-

deﬁnedi [GDB/MI], page hundeﬁnedi).

--args Change interpretation of command line so that arguments following the exe-

cutable ﬁle are passed as command line arguments to the inferior. This option

stops option processing.

-baud bps

-b bps Set the line speed (baud rate or bits per second) of any serial interface used by

gdb for remote debugging.

-l timeout

Set the timeout (in seconds) of any communication used by gdb for remote

debugging.

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-tty device

-t device

Run using device for your program’s standard input and output.

-tui Activate the Text User Interface when starting. The Text User Interface man-

ages several text windows on the terminal, showing source, assembly, regis-

ters and gdb command outputs (see hundeﬁnedi [gdb Text User Interface],

page hundeﬁnedi). Alternatively, the Text User Interface can be enabled by

invoking the program ‘gdbtui’. Do not use this option if you run gdb from

Emacs (see hundeﬁnedi [Using gd b under gnu Emacs], page hundeﬁnedi).

-interpreter interp

Use the interpreter interp for interface with the c ontrolling program or device.

This option is meant to be set by programs which communicate with gdb using

it as a back end. See hundeﬁnedi [Command Interpreters], page hundeﬁnedi.

‘--interpreter=mi’ (or ‘--interpreter=mi2’) causes gdb to use the gdb/mi

interface (see hundeﬁnedi [The gdb/mi Interface], page hundeﬁnedi) included

since gdb version 6.0. The previous gdb/mi interface, included in gdb version

5.3 and selected with ‘--interpreter=mi1’, is deprecated. Earlier gdb/mi

interfaces are no longer supported.

-write Open the executable and core ﬁles for both reading and writing. This is equiv-

alent to the ‘set write on’ command inside gdb (see hundeﬁnedi [Patching],

page hundeﬁnedi).

-statistics

This option causes gdb to print statistics about time and memory usage after

it completes each command and returns to the prompt.

-version This option causes gdb to print its version number and no-warranty blurb, and

exit.

2.1.3 What gdb Does During Startup

Here’s the description of what gd b does during session startup:

1. Sets up the command interpreter as s peciﬁed by the command line (see hundeﬁnedi

[Mode Options], page hundeﬁnedi).

2. Reads the system-wide init ﬁle (if ‘--with-system-gdbinit’ was used when building

gdb; see hundeﬁnedi [System-wide conﬁguration and settings], page hundeﬁnedi) and

executes all the commands in that ﬁle.

3. Reads the init ﬁle (if any) in your home directory

and executes all the commands in

that ﬁle.

4. Processes command line options and operands.

5. Reads and executes the commands from init ﬁle (if any) in the current working direc-

tory. This is only done if the current directory is diﬀerent from your home directory.

Thus, you can have more than one init ﬁle, one generic in your home directory, and

On DOS/Windows systems, the home directory is the one pointed to by the HOME environment variable.

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