Hi, Could anyone suggest some good tourist stops in GCC (i.e. good functions to set breakpoints at while "debugging" a simple compile to learn the inner workings of the beast)? If I wanted to visit the C parser, what is that called? I was playing with the -### option. There is a wiki debugging entry that describes running cc1 using the driver: gdb --args `gcc/xgcc -### -Bgcc -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -S -fverbose-asm -dA -Q -fmem-report ../../gcctest1.i 2>&1|grep cc1|tr -d '"'` I had to add the "tr -d '"' (a ' " ') or it would not work? Says it can't find "gcc/cc1". Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a "feature" of Debians gdb? Thanks! kevin