Problem Debugging with ibuclaw's GDB

[Iain Buclaw]

On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 18:53:46 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> Now with my patches, you can simply use 'start', and gdb will 
>> stop at the correct place for you.
>>
>
> Wonderful!
>
> BTW: Why can't I do `b main`, `r`, `n` like I'm used to in C, 
> then?
>

As I said, `b main` works.  It sets a breakpoint at the C main 
function.


> What if I want to set a breakpoint somewhere deep down in the 
> call stack and execute to that. Do I always first have to do 
> `start`and then `continue` to get to my breakpoint.
>

No, just set your breakpoint at the location you want and then 
`run`


> There also seems to be a bug in the symbol completion
>
>   b std.std TAB complete
>
> but
>
>   b std.stdio TAB
>
> shows nothing and
>
>   b std.stdio. TAB
>
> shows incorrect results.
>

For the time being I'd suggest putting quotes around qualified 
names.
Eg:

     b 'std.std TAB


You have to do it this way because a D-specific expression parser 
hasn't been written yet, and the one used for C/C++ doesn't 
understand '.' to be a qualified identifier separator. This is 
intended to be fixed in the near future.