GDB Scripts
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@ges.redhat.com
Tue Aug 20 19:39:00 GMT 2002
> Hello All,
>
> Im fairly new to GDB and the Linux environment, and was wondering if there was
> any way to set up some sort of 'script' within GDB so that when it recieves a
> particular message it performs a command. i.e. Say the program it is debugging
> recieves a SIGKILL message when GDB pauses when recieving this message, it
> would issue a command.
>
> Thanks for any info.
At present it is possible to attach commands to events like breakpoints
and (if they were implemented on linux) C++ throw/catch. Unfortunatly
it isn't possible to use that mechanism for signals. I think it should
be possible though, and would be a very useful feature.
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=116
Andrew
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