gdb questions

Christopher Faylor cgf@bbc.com
Tue Dec 23 12:55:00 GMT 1997


In article < 349F7FEE.58638D18@tibco.com >,
Matt Stupple  <matts@tibco.com> wrote:
>1) How do I disable the Tk GUI for gdb?  In general I find the command
>line interface more useful and more forgiving.

gdb -nw whatever.exe

>2) Is it possible to use gdb to debug code built using MSVC?  I'm using
>the M$ compiler, but building from the command line with gmake etc and
>would like to be able to debug in similar fashion; the alternative
>(using the MSVC IDE) really doesn't appeal!

I don't think so.  GNU C and MSVC use different formats to store debugging
information.
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