No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command. --- new to gdb: please help !

[Grazia Russo-Lassner]

thank you, Daniel.
It works now.

g.

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Grazia Russo-Lassner

Dept. of Linguistics and Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, 
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
e-mail : glassner@umiacs.umd.edu
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On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:48:13PM -0500, Grazia Russo-Lassner wrote:
>>
>> hello,
>>
>> I am trying to debug a program, but when I enter a breakpoint I get
>> No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
>>
>> This is what I do:
>> gdb filename-of-executable
>> break 48	#to break at line 48
>>
>> then I get:
>> No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
>>
>> Could someone help ?
>
> Probably your binary does not contain debug information.  Try
> recompiling with -g.
>
> -- 
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery, LLC
>