displaying source files during debugging.

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Thu Sep 26 10:04:00 GMT 2002


> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to debug program with gdb for a
> m68k target. We are compiling the source files
> in two executable: 
>   - the first in aout format. 
>   - the second in srecord format (with objcopy).
> The second is download on the target and the first
> is giving to gdb in order to reach the symbol table.
> Our problem is that this configuration don't allow
> us to display source files during debugging.
> We tried to specifie the source files directorie
> with the dir command but with no success.

Off the top of my head:

Is the original code compiled with -g?
Which C compiler?  The problem may be that GDB doesn't recognize the 
debug info being generated by the compiler.
Is gdb reporting ``no symbol information found''.

Andrew




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