How to load program reading stdin and taking parameters in gdb?
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19-08-2019 - |
Question
I have a program that takes input from stdin and also takes some parameters from command line. It looks like this:
cat input.txt > myprogram -path "/home/user/work"
I try to debug the code with gdb inside emacs, by M-x gdb, I try to load the program with the command:
gdb cat input.txt > myprogram -path "/home/user/work"
However, gdb does not like it.
Question cribbed from here.
Unfortunately I don't understand the solution and am not sure what to do beyond compiling with the -g
option and running the command M-x gdb.
Solution
If you were doing it from a shell you'd do it like this:
% gdb myprogram
gdb> run params ... < input.txt
This seems to work within emacs too.
OTHER TIPS
There are several ways to do it:
$ gdb myprogram
(gdb) r -path /home/user/work < input.txt
or
$ gdb myprogram
(gdb) set args -path /home/user/work < input.txt
(gdb) r
or
$ gdb -ex 'set args -path /home/user/work < input.txt' myprogram
(gdb) r
where the gdb run
command (r
) uses by default the arguments as set previously with set args
.
For completeness' sake upon starting a debugging session there is also the --args option. ie)
gdb gdbarg1 gdbarg2 --args yourprog arg1 arg2 -x arg3
And if you do not need to debug from the very beginning you can also attach to an already running process by using:
$ gdb myprogram xxx
where xxx is the process id. Then you do not need to tell gdb the starting arguments.