In GDB, I can do the following and get address of a string literal: (gdb) p &"aaa" $3 = (char (*)[4]) 0x614c20 As I understand, a string literal is a rvalue with no symbol to which i...

The backtrace from core-file cut the useful information due to this: Backtrace stopped: Not enough registers or memory available to unwind further. Why this message occurs and can I do someth...

I'm trying to debug an EFI application in qemu with gdb. QEMU is started with -s and -S flags and gdb is started with gdb ./target/x86_64-unknown-uefi/debug/application.efi and qemu is targeted wi...

I read the JIT Interface chapter and faced the problem: how to write a simpliest example for simpliest possible code (preferably in C++ and at least for x86-64 platform)? Say, I want to debug the f...

I recently started working on vscode. I wanted to debug my C code. But the moment I am launching the debugger getting Error : Unable to start debugging. The value of miDebuggerPath is invalid. I h...

A shared object was built on RedHat Linux and while all the code was compiled with debug, the debugger (gdb) refused to load the symbols and issued an error as in: ... GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-37.el5) ...

Is it possible to clear the command window of gdb? I mean, is there a command in gdb that do the same (for the command windows) as the clear command in a bash terminal?

My current workflow for a project is the following: build the project (via catkin) source a setup.sh script (generated by catkin, which I wouldn't like to modify) setting environment variables an...

I get this error (title of this question), when I am attempting to debug C/C++ programs using gdb with Netbeans IDE. Does anyone know what this means, and how to get rid of the warning? I am able...

I have a extremely complicated shell script, within which it calls a C++ program I want to debug via GDB. It is extremely hard to separate this c++ program from the shell since it has a lot of bran...

I have a Python script that launches several external programs as subprocesses and uses pipes to communicate with them. The system runs on Linux. I want to debug one of the children, a specific exe...

I would like to strip an ELF binary compiled with debug information and keep only the minimal required information to provide symbols / source code location output in a GDB backtrace. It would be b...

This is the display of my gdb (gdb) x/20bx 0xbffff2c0 0xbffff2c0: 0xd4 0xf2 0xff 0xbf 0x16 0x8f 0x04 0x08 0xbffff2c8: 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0c 0x42 0xbffff2d0: 0x6b 0x00 0x00 0x00 Is i...

I am curious why gdb does not show control registers for x86. I have been using gdb with qemu to debug some kernel stuff. I get register values using info registers and info all-registers. Howeve...

Does anyone know how to save gdb settings (like "set print pretty on" or "set print elements 0", both from here)? I don't want to set my configuration every time that I will use gdb :/ I searched ...

I've checked /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope in the container and on the host - both report the value as zero but when attached to pid one gdb reports Reading symbols from /opt/my-web-proxy/bi...

I am trying to see which process which is causing a memory leak, and dump the heap which is causing it to see what is the issue. Which command do I use in gdb to set the memory leak on and check t...

I want to examine the contents of a std::vector in GDB, how do I do it? Let's say it's a std::vector<int> for the sake of simplicity.

Assume the following .gdbinit: break foobar ignore 1 1 run The program is started using gdb --args ./myprogram --argument1 --argument2 etc. Now, when I start this the first time around all is f...

Debugger executable /usr/local/bin/gdb is not signed. As a result, debugging may not work properly in vscode in macOS Catalina 10.15.6. I am providing the launch.json file for reference. { "v...

I am trying to debug an application that is built from a number of shared libraries using GDB. Start of gdb: prompt$ gdb GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-50.el6) Copyright (C) 2010 Fre...

I failed using brew to install gdb. I was using the following command: brew install gdb Is gdb available on mac m1 (apple silicon)? If so, what should I do?

I have this exact question: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/511 But the solution there does not work. I've tried the same simple example code, #include <stdio.h> #inclu...

GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-37.el5) Kernal 2.6.18-164.el5 I am trying to debug my application. However, everytime I pass the binary to the gdb it says: (no debugging symbols found) Here is the file ou...

When debugging a program with gdb (gdb main), it shows a lot of credits, and links. I know that we can use the quiet argument to disable this text, but I want to disable it permanently. Does gdb ha...