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Next: 3.10 Options for Debugging Your Program To tell GCC to emit extra information for use by a debugger, in almost all cases you need only to add -g to your other options. Some debug formats can co-exist (like DWARF with CTF) when each of them is enabled explicitly by adding the respective command line option to your other options. GCC allows you to use -g with -O. The shortcuts taken by optimized code may occasionally be surprising: some variables you declared may not exist at all; flow of control may briefly move where you did not expect it; some statements may not be executed because they compute constant results or their values are already at hand; some statements may execute in different places because they have been moved out of loops. Nevertheless it is possible to debug optimized output. This makes it reasonable to use the optimizer for programs that might have bugs. If you are not using some other optimization option, consider using -Og (see -g. With no -O option at all, some compiler passes that collect information useful for debugging do not run at all, so that -Og may result in a better debugging experience. -g Produce debugging information in the operating system’s native format (stabs, COFF, XCOFF, or DWARF). GDB can work with this debugging information. On most systems that use stabs format, -g enables use of extra debugging information that only GDB can use; this extra information makes debugging work better in GDB but probably makes other debuggers crash...

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There are types of bugs that are difficult to debug from within Python: • segfaults (not uncaught Python exceptions) • hung processes (in cases where you can't get a Python traceback or debug with pdb) • out of control daemon processes In these cases, you can try gdb. Prerequisites You need to have gdb on your system and Python debugging extensions. Extensions package includes debugging symbols and adds Python-specific commands into gdb. On a modern Linux system, you can easily install these with: Fedora: • sudoyuminstallgdbpython-debuginfo Ubuntu: • sudoapt-getinstallgdbpython2.7-dbg Centos*: • sudoyuminstallyum-utils • sudodebuginfo-installglibc • sudoyuminstallgdbpython-debuginfo * tested on Centos 7. python-debuginfo is installable after the first two commands. For gdb support on legacy systems, look at the end of this page. Running with `gdb` There are two possible ways: • run python under gdb from the start. Note: the python executable needs to have debug symbols in it which may be another exe python2.7-dbg depending on your system • attach to already running python process To run python under gdb there are also two ways. Interactive: • $ gdb python ... (gdb) run .py Automatic: • $ gdb -ex r --args python .py This will run the program til it exits, segfaults or you manually stop execution (using Ctrl+C). If the process is already running, you can attach to it provided you know the process ID. • $ gdb python Attaching to a running process like this will cause it to...

GDB Documentation GDB: The GNU Project Debugger [ GDB Documentation Printed Manuals The Online GDB manuals Documentation generated from the GDB User Manual ( Describes how to use GDB. Translations are also available: • Japanese, by Kazuhisa Ichikawa as part of GDB Internals Manual (wiki only) Technical details of the internals of GDB. The documentation is also available for Versions of the documentation generated from the last Reference Material Additional documentation includes: • The • • • • • • GDB interfaces and standards Object files and debugging formats • • • • GNU extensions for • • DWARF information from • Architecture manuals Also see • x86: See "Intel documentation" on • Alpha: • V850: Look for V850 on NEC's [ Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to This page is maintained by Copyright Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Last modified 2023-01-16.

This article is the first in a series demonstrating how to use the In addition to providing developer tips and tricks for many GDB commands, future articles will also cover topics such as debugging optimized code, offline debugging (core files), and server-based sessions ( aka gdbserver, used in container debugging). Why another GDB tutorial? The majority of GDB tutorials available on the web consist of little more than introductions to the basic list, break, print, and run commands. New GDB users just might as well read (or sing) the Instead of simply demonstrating a handful of useful commands, each article in this series will focus on one aspect of using GDB from the perspective of someone who develops GDB. I use GDB daily, and these tips and tricks are the ones that I (and many other advanced GDB users and developers) use to streamline our debugging sessions. Because this is the first article in the series, allow me to follow the recommendation of the GDB Song and start at the very beginning: How to run GDB. Compiler options Let me get the (all-too-often-not-so) obvious out of the way: For the best debugging experience, build applications without optimization and with debugging information. That is trivial advice, but GDB's public freenode.net IRC channel (#gdb) sees these issues often enough that they warrant mentioning. TL;DR: Don't debug applications with optimization if you can avoid it. Watch for a future article on optimization. Optimization can cause GDB to behav...