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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Chris Stankevitz <cstankevitz@toyon.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: help me reduce typing when running gdb
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196280581.2501.102.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474DC4C9.7000806@toyon.com>

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:43 -0800, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> Hi, I often perform these steps:
> 
> 1. bjam
> 2. gdb ./bin/debug/prog
> 3. r very long list of parameters that I hate typing
> 4. [lots of debugger commands like c, n, s, break, etc]
> 5. up arrow many times to get back to the run command w/parms
> 6. q
> 7. vi source.cpp
> 8. goto 1
> 
> Can anyone recommend a way to streamline this process?  Particularly 
> Step 3 and Step 5.  

Sure.

1. cat > .gdbinit
   define myrun
     run <very long list of parameters that I hate typing>
   end
   ^D
2. gdb ./bin/debug/prog
3. myrun
4. [lots of debugger commands like c, n, s, break, etc]
5. myrun



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 19:43 Chris Stankevitz
2007-11-28 19:57 ` ramana.radhakrishnan
2007-11-28 20:22 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2007-11-28 21:33 ` Gordon Prieur
2007-11-28 22:55 ` Chris Stankevitz
2007-11-28 23:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-29  0:03 ` Tom Tromey
2007-11-29 11:21 ` Andrew STUBBS

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