From: mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr
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To: dyoon AT home DOT com
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:50:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: Rhide Debugger
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On  2 Mar 98 Dan was found to have commented thusly:

> 
> "the selected breakpoint is invalid, probably this file is not compiled
>  with debugging information or for this line is no code generated.
> (breakpoint at line 63 in file blaster.cpp "
> 
Don't mess with breakpoint setting.  Just start a step (press F7 
only) and see if the trace bar that highlights the current line 
lights up the line that reads main().  If you don't get an error 
message and the bar shows up, it is almost a certainty that you have 
successfully compiled with the debug code in there.

Now re-build the whole thing.  Don't do any editing at all once you 
have re-built.  Now set your breakpoint(s).  Keep in mind, that not 
all lines in your source translate as code where a breakpoint can be 
inserted.  For example, if you have the expression:

	while (1)    <-- no breakpoint allowed here
	{
		your loop

I don't believe you can put a breakpoint at the line indicated.  
There are many lines for which this is possible.

You should also probably turn off any optimizations during debugging, 
then turn them on when the debugging is done.  Make sure that 
function inlining is turned off especially.  I have never debugged 
with these things set, so it is any guess on my part how the debugger 
behaves with them set.

> Now, someone told me that i can't set the -s switch together with the -g
> switch, so i'm guessing that maybe this is my problem.  but I have no
> idea how to check if i have this switch on, and if it is on, i don't
> know how to turn it off.  If anyone could please help me out I would
> really appreciate it.  
> 
> Daniel
> 

This is the -s switch to gcc?  You don't need that at all.  RHide 
deals very well with gcc and gdb and knows what to do in making code 
you can work with.  You might benefit by (re-)reading sections 5.1 
and espeically 5.5 of the RHide documentation, especially since the 
author took the time to write it.

Mitch Halloran
Research (Bio)chemist
Duzen Laboratories Group
Ankara   TURKEY
mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr

other job title:  Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy