Mahesh Pujari <pujarimahesh_kumar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks David for the reply. I think I need to do more ground work of > going through how to use gdb. > Basically I am java programmer and I was trying out to debug git > source using eclipse CDT and as we do in java, I was trying out to set > break point but failed with errors as "No line 396 in file "help.c"". > And using gdb too I end up with same error. > > # (gdb) break help.c:396 > # No line 396 in file "help.c". > > > Am I missing something. There is just no line 396 known to gdb. It seems like you are indicating a function header. That's not code. Either take the function _name_ rather than a line number (that's usually most reliable) or take the first line of actual code. -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html