Re: local gdb could not stop at breakpoint?

[Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>]

On 11/28/05, yang xiaoli <alula418@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I compile gdb6.0 for arm , now it works, but when I debug a program and set
> breakpoint at a line, it does't stop at breakpoint, it runs over, for
> example like this:
>
> (gdb)l
> 1 #include <stdlib.h>
> 2 int main()
> 3 {
> 4    int a, b;
> 5
> 6    a = 10;
> 7    b = 20;
> 8    printf("hello world\n");
> 9    printf("a+b= %d", a+b);
> (gdb)b 6
> (gdb)r
> Startomg program...
> hello world
> a+b= 30
>
> Program exited normally
> (gdb)
>
> when I see breakpoints using command "info b" ,it display the breakpoints
> information normally, why it does not stop at breakpoints?

When you post a bug report, or a question like this, it's important to
provide all the information we would need to try things out on our own
machine (assuming we have an ARM-linux system handy, which some of us
do).  In this case:
- You haven't included complete source code for your test program.
- You haven't showed us how you compiled it.
- You have clipped out sections of the GDB transcript that would tell
us how you're connecting to the target --- target remote, native, etc.
 But I remember from your previous message that you're doing native
debugging, so that's fine.
- Since you're doing native debugging, we might need to know which
kernel you're running.

As I say, think of what another GDB developer would need to know in
order to make the problem happen themselves.

My first suggestion: have you tried a more recent version of GDB?  6.0
is around two years old.