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Re: [Newb] Stepping into cc1plus from gcc
On Mar 20, 2004, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> On Mar 20, 2004, sashan <sashang@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been stepping through gcc and I've come the point, in
>>> libiberty/pex-unix.c where it forks a new process called cc1plus. I'm
>>> guessing this is the C++ compiler that is being called. Anyway I'd
>>> like to know how to continue stepping into it.
>>
>> Add the attached scripts to your path and run:
>>
>> % debugx cc1plus g++ rest of command line
> Try "gdb --args cc1plus ...".
But then you have to know the command line passed to cc1plus. And
what if gdb doesn't support --args, or if you want to use emacs and it
doesn't support gdb --args?
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