Hi . I'm trying to debug my example program with GDB. My question is why GDB do not show the simbolic information. (e.g Line number and vars) server:/home/sanyi/ALP/ch01# gdb reciprocal GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/sanyi/ALP/ch01/reciprocal Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7510358 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0xb7510358 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #1 0xb77807c4 in ?? () #2 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) The source programs are : main.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include "reciprocal.hpp" int main (int argc, char **argv){ int i; i = atoi (argv[1]); printf ("The reciprocal of %d is %g\n",i,reciprocal (i)); return 0; } reciprocal.cpp: #include <cassert> #include "reciprocal.hpp" double reciprocal (int i) { assert (i != 0); return 1.0/i; } The Makefile: reciprocal: main.o reciprocal.o g++ $(CFLAGS) -o reciprocal main.o reciprocal.o main.o: main.c reciprocal.hpp gcc $(CFLAGS) -c main.c reciprocal.o: reciprocal.cpp reciprocal.hpp g++ $(CFLAGS) -c reciprocal.cpp clean: rm -f *.o reciprocal I build the programm with make CFLAGS=-g server:/home/sanyi/ALP/ch01# make CFLAGS=-g gcc -g -c main.c g++ -g -c reciprocal.cpp g++ -g -o reciprocal main.o reciprocal.o Thank You -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/GDB-in-Lenny-tp26545396p26545396.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.