Re: Breakpoints

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 12:04 -0700, Joel Madero wrote:
> Thanks I'll look through those links. One thing I noticed on the wiki
> is that it says to do this:
...
> cd /opt/libreoffice/program

        :-)

> when I install from source it never installs there so I was confused
> for a second (or two). I think maybe updating the wiki to include a
> couple examples or at least a link to the first site you provided
> could be useful. 

        Sure - perhaps better to use a generic install/program path - which
then would match the 'make dev-install' location. Feel free to
edit/improve the wiki :-)

        Another thing about gdb is that breakpoints on C++ functions have
traditionally not work out that well for me; there is always some
gotcha: two forms of object constructor, polymorphic methods,
tab-completion not working / and/or taking forages.

        So typically I use what (I suspect) IDE's use, and appears to be well
debugged, putting a break-point at a specific module & line number:

        break view.cxx:1234

        then:

        thread apply all backtrace
or      t a a bt

        When the breakpoint is hit :-)

        HTH,

                Michael.

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