GDB mode options

The following table shows the GDB mode options:

Options and Parameters

Mode

Description

-args file

Default

Specifies arguments to send to the debuggee. The first argument represents an executable file. All arguments that follow the filename are command line arguments.

-batch

Default

Causes the debugger to exit with status 0 after processing the initialization files and all the command files specified with `-x' (if not inhibited with `-n'). The debugger exits with a nonzero status if an error occurs in executing debugger's commands from command files.

-cd dir

Default

Specifies a new working directory

-clomp launcher launcher_args

Default

Starts a debugging session on a Cluster OpenMP* application created by the launcher with the arguments launcher_args.

-command file

Default

Specifies an initialization command file. The default initialization file is .gdbinit. During startup, the debugger searches for this file in the current directory. If it is not there, the debugger searches your home directory. This file is processed after the target process has been loaded or attached.

-c file

-core file 

Default

Specifies the core dump file

-dbx

Default

Causes the debugger to use the idb_options options set

-directory dir

Default

Searches for source files in dir

-e file

-exec file

Default

Specifies the executable file

-fullname

Default

Outputs information used by Emacs*-GDB interface

-help

Default

Print help message and exit

-interpreter name

-ui name

Default

Selects a mode interpreter interface

-n[x]

Default

Causes the debugger to skip reading .gdbinit.

-nowindows 
-
nw

Default

Do not use a window interface

-p[id] pid

Default

Specifies the process ID of the process to be debugged.

-parallel launcher launcher_args

Default

Starts a debugging session on a parallel application created by the launcher with arguments launcher_args.

-parallelattach launcher

Default

Attach to an existing MPI-1 job.

-quiet 
-
silent

Default

Do not print copyright message

-tty device

Default

Use device for input/output by the program being debugged

-version

Default

Print version information and exit

-x file

Default

Tells the debugger to process command files passed with -x in addition to .gdbinit. More than one -x option can be used