Debugger problems

Jens Dagerbo jens.dagerbo at swipnet.se
Fri Jul 1 20:05:05 UTC 2005


Hi,

As Kuba Ober pointed out in the other thread, gdb not stopping in ctors (or 
dtors) is a known gdb/gcc3 problem. See the gdb release notes.

jd

On Friday 01 July 2005 13:17, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Here is an example how to reproduce the "debugger is not stopping on
> breakpoints" error.
>  Load the KDE/kdewebdev/quanta/quanta.kdevelop (or recreate by importing
> it, as it contains some paths specific for my PC), set a breakpoint on
> line 65 of src/kqapp.cpp (in the KQApplication constructor) and run
> Quanta in the debugger. It will not stop there.
>  If you set a breakpoint for example in src/main.cpp, line 209, when the
> KQApplication is created, you can step inside the constructor, but if
> you have another breakpoint in the constructor (let's say line 68), a
> "Continue" will not stop there.
>   Same problem happens in other places as well, as I see mostly in
> constructors of the objects. Examples:
>  treeviews/structtreetag.cpp, lines 37, 47, 207,
> dialogs/tagdialogs/tagxml.cpp lines 35, 41. Funny is that if you have a
> breakpoint in a function called from a constructor (like line 50  in
> tagxml.cpp), it will stop there.
>
> Andras




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