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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Alain Magloire <alain@qnx.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Failed breakpoint for C++ in gdb
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050726140129.GA6826@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1578FF984ABAD411AFA5000102C4BB5B11DEEB0C@NIMBUS>

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:31:10AM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> Why is gdb so fussy about the argument order ?

GDB generally matches the compiler-generated debug info.  There's a
long-term plan to be more forgiving about this, but it's hard to
implement that without slowing down symbol reading...

> (gdb) b foo(const char *)
> Function "foo(const char *)" not defined
> (gdb) b foo(char const *)
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x....... file testing.cpp line 4.
> 
> So is there something I should do ? Do I have to reorder my arguments to put
> the const last ?

Is this for command line use?  Try: b 'foo<TAB>


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-26 13:31 Alain Magloire
2005-07-26 14:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-07-28 21:13 Alain Magloire
2005-07-28 21:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-28 21:39 Alain Magloire
2005-07-28 21:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-29 15:20 Alain Magloire
2005-07-29 15:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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