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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Jared Stevens" <stevja AT caldera DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 11:19:31 +0000
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Subject: Re: GDB, or other debuggers
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Jared Stevens" <stevja AT caldera DOT com> wrote:

> How the heck do I use GDB?

Better choice: with RHIDE.

> If I run a program and it crashes, how do I tell
> which line of code the crash occured on by using the crash info that DJGPP
> supplies you with?

1) Command line:
redirect -e error.txt program.exe
symify -i error.txt -o error.rep program.exe

You'll get the trace back error.rep.

2)  GDB:
gdb program.exe
Run the program (I guess that's the run command, type help or h to get help)
When it crashes use the backtrace (or something like it) command.

3) RHIDE:
Compile your program and run it with Ctrl+F9
When it crashes RHIDE will show you the stack trace in a window and you can 
jump to the code selecting in this window.

I use (3), in some strange cases (2) [under Linux] and (1) only when the 
crash happened in another machine (not mine) and the user sends me the 
information (my editor saves it to disk).

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