cgdb is a lightweight curses (terminal-based) interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB). In addition to the standard gdb console, cgdb provides a split screen view that displays the source code as it executes. The keyboard interface is modeled after vim, so vim users should feel at home using cgdb.
Questions tagged [cgdb]
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Make color escape codes work in cgdb
I have the following function residing in ~/.gdbinit:
define foo
echo \033[34m
echo testing...\n
echo \033[0m
end
When running foo in gdb it prints testing... in blue, however, when running it in cgdb the result…
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run c program with cgdb and blocked at getchar()
My test.c file:
#include
int main() {
int myChar;
myChar = getchar();
printf("You entered: %c\n", myChar);
return 0;
}
compiled and run with cgdb:
$ gcc -g test.c
$ cgdb a.out
I input start, then input n, and I…
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Can I map the SHIFT+F11 Visual Studio debugger shortcut within CGDB?
I'd like to use the same keyboard shortcuts for step-debugging in CGDB that Visual Studio uses by default. The main three for me are step over (F10), step in (F11), and step out (SHIFT+F11). I use Ubuntu and have disabled the F10 (menu) and F11…
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Is there a tool like CGDB for LLDB?
I'm looking for a tool like CGDB for LLDB.
Make debugging in the terminal easier.
Thanks.
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cgdb not working macOS Sierra
I'm trying to run after setting a breakpoint in cgdb
Starting program: /path/to/my/executable
Unable to find Mach task port for process-id 1996: (os/kern) failure (0x5).
(please check gdb is codesigned - see taskgated(8))
I tried both these guides…
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Cannot enter input in cgdb on Linux Ubuntu 14.04
Here is my very simple program that I am trying to debug with cgdb. Problem is once I get to the "scanf" line, it prompts for an input, but once I press enter after entering the input (2 in the example below) it seems to enter into an infinite loop.…
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Trying to use gdb (and cgdb) for debugging programs in go (golang) but there seems to be problems
I am aware that the go team will not support GDB very well. However, it seems it works sometimes so before I give up I want to see if it works on this program.
I was trying to use it to debug my program in mac os x mavericks and I wasn't able to…
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Installing cgdb on a mac os x
I know that this should probably be very easy, and I have looked into the read me files and other files in cgdb like INSTALL that talk about isntalling cgdb. I was trying to install cgdb and the instructions said:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$…
Charlie Parker
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cgdb doesn't exit: determining why and fixing
After I run a program through cgdb, cgdb won't exit. Typing kill, then quit results in cgdb hanging.
If I do not load a file in the debugger, quit works. If I load a file but do not run it, quit works. If I run the file, quit hangs.
How do I:…
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Using cgdb for a ncurses c application
When I debug a ncurses appplication I usually do the following:
gdb --tty=/dev/ttys000 ...
This will then make the ncurses application to run in a different terminal than the one gdb runs in.
Recently I discovered cgdb and I very much like it.…
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The vscode debugger for gdb is not running as per configuration
I am trying to pass command line arguments to the gdb in vscode. Here is my launch.js config.
{
"configurations": [
{
"name": "(gdb) Launch",
"type": "cppdbg",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${workspaceFolder}/main",
"args":…
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cgdb: how to turn disassembly on and off dynamically?
If I want to see assembly level in cgdb, I can add the following line to the .cgdbrc file:
:set disasm
It works, but then assembler is always interspersed with C++ code. When I try to type these commands into the command line, they don't work. (Why…
Dov
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htobe64 function disables debugger's ability to list source code
I have compiled the very simple program
$ cat main.cpp
#include
int main() {
uint64_t val=1;
// val = htobe64(val);
std::cout << val << std::endl;
}
$ g++ -g main.cpp -o a.out
When I debug it using cgdb I get the following:
$…
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cgdb produces noise output symbols to terminal
cgdb prints these symbols in terminal: [32m [m.
It is the "gdb" part of the program that does that. The "cgdb" part(or window, you name it), prints to terminal in colors.
I had installed cgdb from the Linux Mint packages repository and…
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Confusing prompts from cgdb "Start it from the beginning?"
Running a multi-threaded app in cgdb (with gdb defaults in terms of scheduler-locking (off), non-stop (off), etc), and I'm getting these bizarre "unprompted" prompts, like so:
[New Thread 0x7ffff0bfb700 (LWP 16513)] …
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