22.9 Optional Messages about Internal Happenings
gdb has commands that enable optional debugging messages from
various gdb subsystems; normally these commands are of
interest to gdb maintainers, or when reporting a bug. This
section documents those commands.
set exec-done-display- Turns on or off the notification of asynchronous commands'
completion. When on, gdb will print a message when an
asynchronous command finishes its execution. The default is off.
show exec-done-display- Displays the current setting of asynchronous command completion
notification.
set debug aarch64- Turns on or off display of debugging messages related to ARM AArch64.
The default is off.
show debug aarch64- Displays the current state of displaying debugging messages related to
ARM AArch64.
set debug arch- Turns on or off display of gdbarch debugging info. The default is off
show debug arch- Displays the current state of displaying gdbarch debugging info.
set debug aix-solib- Control display of debugging messages from the AIX shared library
support module. The default is off.
show debug aix-thread- Show the current state of displaying AIX shared library debugging messages.
set debug aix-thread- Display debugging messages about inner workings of the AIX thread
module.
show debug aix-thread- Show the current state of AIX thread debugging info display.
set debug check-physname- Check the results of the “physname” computation. When reading DWARF
debugging information for C++, gdb attempts to compute
each entity's name. gdb can do this computation in two
different ways, depending on exactly what information is present.
When enabled, this setting causes gdb to compute the names
both ways and display any discrepancies.
show debug check-physname- Show the current state of “physname” checking.
set debug coff-pe-read- Control display of debugging messages related to reading of COFF/PE
exported symbols. The default is off.
show debug coff-pe-read- Displays the current state of displaying debugging messages related to
reading of COFF/PE exported symbols.
set debug dwarf-die- Dump DWARF DIEs after they are read in.
The value is the number of nesting levels to print.
A value of zero turns off the display.
show debug dwarf-die- Show the current state of DWARF DIE debugging.
set debug dwarf-line- Turns on or off display of debugging messages related to reading
DWARF line tables. The default is 0 (off).
A value of 1 provides basic information.
A value greater than 1 provides more verbose information.
show debug dwarf-line- Show the current state of DWARF line table debugging.
set debug dwarf-read- Turns on or off display of debugging messages related to reading
DWARF debug info. The default is 0 (off).
A value of 1 provides basic information.
A value greater than 1 provides more verbose information.
show debug dwarf-read- Show the current state of DWARF reader debugging.
set debug displaced- Turns on or off display of gdb debugging info for the
displaced stepping support. The default is off.
show debug displaced- Displays the current state of displaying gdb debugging info
related to displaced stepping.
set debug event- Turns on or off display of gdb event debugging info. The
default is off.
show debug event- Displays the current state of displaying gdb event debugging
info.
set debug expression- Turns on or off display of debugging info about gdb
expression parsing. The default is off.
show debug expression- Displays the current state of displaying debugging info about
gdb expression parsing.
set debug frame- Turns on or off display of gdb frame debugging info. The
default is off.
show debug frame- Displays the current state of displaying gdb frame debugging
info.
set debug gnu-nat- Turns on or off debugging messages from the gnu/Hurd debug support.
show debug gnu-nat- Show the current state of gnu/Hurd debugging messages.
set debug infrun- Turns on or off display of gdb debugging info for running the inferior.
The default is off. infrun.c contains GDB's runtime state machine used
for implementing operations such as single-stepping the inferior.
show debug infrun- Displays the current state of gdb inferior debugging.
set debug jit- Turns on or off debugging messages from JIT debug support.
show debug jit- Displays the current state of gdb JIT debugging.
set debug lin-lwp- Turns on or off debugging messages from the Linux LWP debug support.
show debug lin-lwp- Show the current state of Linux LWP debugging messages.
set debug linux-namespaces- Turns on or off debugging messages from the Linux namespaces debug support.
show debug linux-namespaces- Show the current state of Linux namespaces debugging messages.
set debug mach-o- Control display of debugging messages related to Mach-O symbols
processing. The default is off.
show debug mach-o- Displays the current state of displaying debugging messages related to
reading of COFF/PE exported symbols.
set debug notification- Turns on or off debugging messages about remote async notification.
The default is off.
show debug notification- Displays the current state of remote async notification debugging messages.
set debug observer- Turns on or off display of gdb observer debugging. This
includes info such as the notification of observable events.
show debug observer- Displays the current state of observer debugging.
set debug overload- Turns on or off display of gdb C++ overload debugging
info. This includes info such as ranking of functions, etc. The default
is off.
show debug overload- Displays the current state of displaying gdb C++ overload
debugging info.
set debug parser- Turns on or off the display of expression parser debugging output.
Internally, this sets the
yydebug variable in the expression
parser. See Tracing Your Parser, for
details. The default is off.
show debug parser- Show the current state of expression parser debugging.
set debug remote- Turns on or off display of reports on all packets sent back and forth across
the serial line to the remote machine. The info is printed on the
gdb standard output stream. The default is off.
show debug remote- Displays the state of display of remote packets.
set debug serial- Turns on or off display of gdb serial debugging info. The
default is off.
show debug serial- Displays the current state of displaying gdb serial debugging
info.
set debug solib-frv- Turns on or off debugging messages for FR-V shared-library code.
show debug solib-frv- Display the current state of FR-V shared-library code debugging
messages.
set debug symbol-lookup- Turns on or off display of debugging messages related to symbol lookup.
The default is 0 (off).
A value of 1 provides basic information.
A value greater than 1 provides more verbose information.
show debug symbol-lookup- Show the current state of symbol lookup debugging messages.
set debug symfile- Turns on or off display of debugging messages related to symbol file functions.
The default is off. See Files.
show debug symfile- Show the current state of symbol file debugging messages.
set debug symtab-create- Turns on or off display of debugging messages related to symbol table creation.
The default is 0 (off).
A value of 1 provides basic information.
A value greater than 1 provides more verbose information.
show debug symtab-create- Show the current state of symbol table creation debugging.
set debug target- Turns on or off display of gdb target debugging info. This info
includes what is going on at the target level of GDB, as it happens. The
default is 0. Set it to 1 to track events, and to 2 to also track the
value of large memory transfers.
show debug target- Displays the current state of displaying gdb target debugging
info.
set debug timestamp- Turns on or off display of timestamps with gdb debugging info.
When enabled, seconds and microseconds are displayed before each debugging
message.
show debug timestamp- Displays the current state of displaying timestamps with gdb
debugging info.
set debug varobj- Turns on or off display of gdb variable object debugging
info. The default is off.
show debug varobj- Displays the current state of displaying gdb variable object
debugging info.
set debug xml- Turns on or off debugging messages for built-in XML parsers.
show debug xml- Displays the current state of XML debugging messages.