Re: git compile with debug symbols

Mahesh Pujari [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks David for the reply. I think I need to do more ground work of
going through how to use gdb.
Basically I am java programmer and I was trying out to debug git
source using eclipse CDT and as we do in java, I was trying out to set
break point but failed with errors as "No line 396 in file "help.c"".
And using gdb too I end up with same error.

# (gdb) break help.c:396
# No line 396 in file "help.c".


Am I missing something.

There is just no line 396 known to gdb.  It seems like you are
indicating a function header.  That's not code.  Either take the
function _name_ rather than a line number (that's usually most reliable)
or take the first line of actual code.

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David Kastrup