Bug 44037 - runs but cannot set breakpoint
Summary: runs but cannot set breakpoint
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gdb
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-06-10 04:55 UTC by Mike Rubel
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-06-10 04:55:39 UTC
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Description Mike Rubel 2001-06-10 04:55:34 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686)

Description of problem:
In simple "hello world" test program, hello.c, compiled to executable
hello.  Runs fine. Can run with gdb also.  Try to set breakpoint on
line 62; here's what happens:

(gdb) break 62
No line 62 in file "init.c"

So try 
(gdb) break hello.c:62
No source file named hello.c.

But hello.c is in the same directory (which is in the path).  What is
init.c anyway?  Gdb ain't too useful without breakpoints...

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gdb on any executable that's been compiled with -g
2. Try to set a breakpoint in the source file with break ## or
   break file:##

Actual Results:  As described above; tries to break in a file called
"init.c" by default, which doesn't seem to exist; if you specify a file it
says the file is not found, even if it is in the path.

Expected Results:  Should have set the breakpoint.

Additional info:

(My machine's name is entropy.  Wrote a simple "hello world" demo program
in C that *does* have a line 62 I want to break at, and does include
main().  I've used gdb many times on previous versions w/o trouble--this is
weird.  I first noticed the problem when trying to debug a more complicated
program--thought I'd done something wrong.  Eventually I tried it on
another program I'd written and got the same result.  I seem to get the
same result with every program...  they all run fine but I cannot set
breakpoints.  So I made this demonstration).


entropy$  > rpm --verify gdb
entropy$  > rpm -q gdb
gdb-5.0rh-5
entropy$  > rpm --verify gcc
entropy$  > rpm -q gcc
gcc-2.96-81
entropy$  > gcc -Wall -g -o hello hello.c
entropy$  > hello
Hello World
entropy$  > gdb hello
[...gdb startup text omitted...]
(gdb) break 62
No line 62 in file "init.c".
(gdb) break hello.c:62
No source file named hello.c.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/mrubel/progs/sandbox/gtk/hello 
Hello World

Program exited normally
(gdb) quit

Comment 1 Mike Rubel 2001-06-10 05:44:08 UTC
OOPS!  -- WITHDRAWN --
My mistake-- wasn't actually compiling with -g, due to a bug in my makefiles. 
This part of gdb works fine.  Next time I'll check more carefully.  Sorry!


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