Passing program arguments to gdb

eddyq · 11-18-2009, 09:30 AM

I'm using gdb to debug my program. My program requires arguments (e.g., ./prog -dfile). But if I use gdb as in gdb ./prog -dfile, gdb wants to interpret the -d argument.

How do I pass an argument to my program via gdb?

johnsfine · 11-18-2009, 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eddyq

How do I pass an argument to my program via gdb?

Code:

gdb --args ./prog -dfile

--args is in gdb.info, but not in the man page.

For a complicated program like gdb, I have no idea how someone decides what is important enough to go in the man page. But usually such decisions are made amazingly badly. Most of the man page for gdb are obscure details far less likely to be needed than --args.

eddyq · 11-18-2009, 11:17 AM

Thanks, and looking at the man page, I agree.