[cairo] Re: Using --sync and gdb to debug X protocol errors in
GTK+-based programs
Bill Spitzak
spitzak at d2.com
Thu Jun 23 12:42:04 PDT 2005
Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> These days gdb also has the nifty --args argument which specifies that
> the arguments given to gdb after the program filename are arguments for
> the program being debugged, not gdb. For example:
>
> gdb --args /bin/ls -l
> (gdb) run
> ...
> total 2384
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 krh krh 1525 Jan 27 14:35 acinclude.m4
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 krh krh 252975 Jun 21 18:51 aclocal.m4
Thanks! I didn't know that! By far the lack of this is my biggest
frustration with gdb is that I had to cut & paste the command that I
want to test, rather than using uparrow.
PS: I tried it and it works.
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