[Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[sashan]

Hi

I've been stepping through gcc and I've come the point, in 
libiberty/pex-unix.c where it forks a new process called cc1plus. I'm 
guessing this is the C++ compiler that is being called. Anyway I'd like 
to know how to continue stepping into it.

Thanks

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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Phil Edwards]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:11:45PM +1300, sashan wrote:
> I've been stepping through gcc and I've come the point, in 
> libiberty/pex-unix.c where it forks a new process called cc1plus. I'm 
> guessing this is the C++ compiler that is being called.

Yes.


> Anyway I'd like 
> to know how to continue stepping into it.

You don't.  The way to actually step through the compiler is to run the
driver (gcc, g++, etc) with -v on your testcase.  It will print the full
command line to the compiler, and the arguments passed to it.  Run the
debugger on /that/ executable, not the driver, and use "set args" as usual
to pass the rest of the options.


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Re: [Newb] Stepping into gnat

[Sebastian Pop]

just curious, what's the debugging procedure for the Ada compiler?

Is this already documented somewhere?

Re: [Newb] Stepping into gnat

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 21:20, Sebastian Pop wrote:
> just curious, what's the debugging procedure for the Ada compiler?
> 
> Is this already documented somewhere?

gcc/ada/treepr.ads contain Ada tree dump routines useful from gdb.

Laurent

Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

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On Mar 20, 2004, sashan <sashang@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> I've been stepping through gcc and I've come the point, in
> libiberty/pex-unix.c where it forks a new process called cc1plus. I'm
> guessing this is the C++ compiler that is being called. Anyway I'd
> like to know how to continue stepping into it.

Add the attached scripts to your path and run:

% debugx cc1plus g++ rest of command line

Hmm...  Maybe these should be in contrib?


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# This script is Free Software, and it can be copied, distributed and
# modified as defined in the GNU General Public License.  A copy of
# its license can be downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

tmp=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/.debug$$
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chmod +x "$tmp/$prog"
exec $run -B"$tmp/" ${1+"$@"} -B"$tmp/"

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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Andreas Schwab]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mar 20, 2004, sashan <sashang@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> I've been stepping through gcc and I've come the point, in
>> libiberty/pex-unix.c where it forks a new process called cc1plus. I'm
>> guessing this is the C++ compiler that is being called. Anyway I'd
>> like to know how to continue stepping into it.
>
> Add the attached scripts to your path and run:
>
> % debugx cc1plus g++ rest of command line

Try "gdb --args cc1plus ...".

Andreas.

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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 20, 2004, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> On Mar 20, 2004, sashan <sashang@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been stepping through gcc and I've come the point, in
>>> libiberty/pex-unix.c where it forks a new process called cc1plus. I'm
>>> guessing this is the C++ compiler that is being called. Anyway I'd
>>> like to know how to continue stepping into it.
>> 
>> Add the attached scripts to your path and run:
>> 
>> % debugx cc1plus g++ rest of command line

> Try "gdb --args cc1plus ...".

But then you have to know the command line passed to cc1plus.  And
what if gdb doesn't support --args, or if you want to use emacs and it
doesn't support gdb --args?

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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Andreas Schwab]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mar 20, 2004, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>>> On Mar 20, 2004, sashan <sashang@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've been stepping through gcc and I've come the point, in
>>>> libiberty/pex-unix.c where it forks a new process called cc1plus. I'm
>>>> guessing this is the C++ compiler that is being called. Anyway I'd
>>>> like to know how to continue stepping into it.
>>> 
>>> Add the attached scripts to your path and run:
>>> 
>>> % debugx cc1plus g++ rest of command line
>
>> Try "gdb --args cc1plus ...".
>
> But then you have to know the command line passed to cc1plus.  And
> what if gdb doesn't support --args, or if you want to use emacs and it
> doesn't support gdb --args?

You don't want to use such an old gdb anyway.

Andreas.

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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 21, 2004, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

>> But then you have to know the command line passed to cc1plus.  And
>> what if gdb doesn't support --args, or if you want to use emacs and it
>> doesn't support gdb --args?

> You don't want to use such an old gdb anyway.

But I do want to use gdb within emacs

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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[llewelly]

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mar 21, 2004, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> >> But then you have to know the command line passed to cc1plus.  And
> >> what if gdb doesn't support --args, or if you want to use emacs and it
> >> doesn't support gdb --args?
> 
> > You don't want to use such an old gdb anyway.
> 
> But I do want to use gdb within emacs

ok. I have to ask. In emacs I type 'M-x gdb', and it responds:
    'Run gdb (like this): gdb ' and I add
    '--args /usr/local/gcc-3.3.3/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-freebsd5.2/3.3.3/cc1plus ... '
    and it works happily. I am using emacs 21.2.1 and gdb 5.2.1 . 

Does this not work for you? 
    

Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 22, 2004, llewelly@xmission.com wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> On Mar 21, 2004, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> >> But then you have to know the command line passed to cc1plus.  And
>> >> what if gdb doesn't support --args, or if you want to use emacs and it
>> >> doesn't support gdb --args?
>> 
>> > You don't want to use such an old gdb anyway.
>> 
>> But I do want to use gdb within emacs

> ok. I have to ask. In emacs I type 'M-x gdb', and it responds:
>     'Run gdb (like this): gdb ' and I add
>     '--args /usr/local/gcc-3.3.3/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-freebsd5.2/3.3.3/cc1plus ... '
>     and it works happily. I am using emacs 21.2.1 and gdb 5.2.1 . 

> Does this not work for you? 
    
If you know the arguments to pass to cc1plus, yes, it does.

The point of debugx is to be able to run a `gcc -c -flags ...' and get
a debugger attached to cc1 or cc1plus, with the right command line.

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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

Alexandre> If you know the arguments to pass to cc1plus, yes, it does.

Alexandre> The point of debugx is to be able to run a `gcc -c -flags
Alexandre> ...' and get a debugger attached to cc1 or cc1plus, with
Alexandre> the right command line.

Cute.  I've long meant to add an option to gcc like "--debug jc1" that
would cause it to launch the appropriate sub-process with "gdb
--args".  Still haven't gotten around to it... but maybe there's no
need with your programs around.

Tom

Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc

[sashan]

>    
>If you know the arguments to pass to cc1plus, yes, it does.
>
>The point of debugx is to be able to run a `gcc -c -flags ...' and get
>a debugger attached to cc1 or cc1plus, with the right command line.
>
>  
>
I've found the scripts useful. Thanks  

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