Tengo al menos un ejemplo en el que -ggdb funcionó mejor para mí que otra opción de depuración que estábamos usando:
amitkar@lohgad:~> cat > main.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("Args :%d\n", argc);
for ( ;argc > 0;)
printf("%s\n", argv[--argc]);
return 0;
}
amitkar@lohgad:~> gcc -gstabs+ main.c -o main
amitkar@lohgad:~> file main
main: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
amitkar@lohgad:~> /usr/bin/gdb ./main
GNU gdb 6.6.50.20070726-cvs
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400577: file main.c, line 5.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/amitkar/main
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x8000df37d57c
) at main.c:5
5 printf("Args :%d\n", argc);
(gdb) print argc
Cannot access memory at address 0x8000df37d57c
(gdb)
Nota: Esto ocurre solo en cajas x86-64 y desaparece cuando se compila con -ggdb. Pero las versiones más recientes del depurador funcionan incluso con -gstabs +