[Libreoffice] [Crazy Ideas] Discuss

[Mattias Johnsson]

On 30 November 2010 11:34, Joe Smith <jes at martnet.com> wrote:
> I was also having a lot of trouble learning anything from running OOo under
> gdb. Gdb was acting weird and I couldn't step through the code and poke
> around. I ended up trying to do it by adding a printf, rebuild, run, rinse,
> repeat. No fun; less progress.

Did you turn off compiler optimisations? I had the same problem (gdb
hopping around in a non-intuitive way, and the values of some useful
variables were optimised out) until I turned them off.

If that's the problem, you can do it by configuring with
--enable-debug, or if you're just building a single module you can do
"build -- debug=t dbglevel=2"

I think "dbglevel=1" also turns them off, and will give less noise,
but I haven't checked.

Cheers,
Mattias