target exec, gdb, gfortran

[Ron Ford]

I thought I would ask a question that is decidedly non-political, although
I will admit that a frenchman made my fourth. As well as infinite
cheeseburgers, and, of course, jenny.

When I believe to be issuing commands to dos that will step me through gdb,
I receive counter-communication that talks of target exec.

What do I need to do to not read of "target exec" and step through?

Dankenstein,

 

[Antoninus Twink]

When I believe to be issuing commands to dos that will step me through gdb,
I receive counter-communication that talks of target exec.

What exactly does the error message say?

What do I need to do to not read of "target exec" and step through?

What are you doing at the moment? Try something like

gdb ./myprog
[snip guff]
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at [wherever]
(gdb) r

Then use step/next/etc.

 

[Ron Ford]

When I believe to be issuing commands to dos that will step me through gdb,
I receive counter-communication that talks of target exec.

What exactly does the error message say?

What do I need to do to not read of "target exec" and step through?

What are you doing at the moment? Try something like

gdb ./myprog
[snip guff]
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at [wherever]
(gdb) r

Then use step/next/etc.

Thanks for the tips, Anton. I was doing a lot of things wrong
simultaneously. I can step through it now, but the only information it
tells me is what line I'm on and that I'm in fmain.c . The source is in
fortran, and I misposted to clc.

Since gdb is bigger than just one syntax, is there an ng where they talk
about it more thoroughly?

 

[santosh]

Ron Ford wrote:

Since gdb is bigger than just one syntax, is there an ng where they
talk about it more thoroughly?

gnu.gdb and gnu.gdb.bug.

 

[Antoninus Twink]

Thanks for the tips, Anton. I was doing a lot of things wrong
simultaneously. I can step through it now, but the only information it
tells me is what line I'm on and that I'm in fmain.c . The source is in
fortran, and I misposted to clc.

It may be that you haven't included debugging symbols in your executable
- try investigating compilation options (e.g. -g).

Since gdb is bigger than just one syntax, is there an ng where they talk
about it more thoroughly?

I'd recommend here if you're debugging C code, or comp.lang.fortran if
you're debugging Fortran.