On 21 Feb 2022 22:09, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches wrote:
> > This was left in subdirs because of the dynamic cgen usage.  However,
> > we can move this breakpoint call to runtime and let gdb detect whether
> > the symbol exists.
> 
> The .gdbinit file doesn't do much good in the sim/ directory
> instead of sim/<subdir> where the "run" program is located (such
> that .gdbinit is loaded when you start gdb there to debug it).
> 
> Make a symlink in sim/<subdir>?

personally i run `gdb ./xxx/run` since you have to be in sim/ to run `make`
for all the common objects & libs, at least initially.  that said, should be
easy to generate xxx/.gdbinit files that do:
source ../.gdbinit

then both flows just work.
-mike