How to Debug a Python Script with GDB: Step Through Code and . . . For these scenarios, **GDB (GNU Debugger)**—a powerful, low-level debugger—becomes indispensable GDB allows you to inspect the Python interpreter’s C-level execution, step into C bindings (e g , shared libraries or C extensions), and diagnose issues that manifest at the boundary between Python and compiled code
Debugging: stepping through Python script using gdb? Thus, libpython py is intended specifically for the Python interpreter inside gdb, and it helps gdb print Python representations (v=[]) instead of just memory addresses (v=0xb7f7506c) - which is only helpful, if gdb happens to debug a Python script (or rather, it will debug the Python executable, that interprets the script)
Automate Debugging with GDB Python API - Interrupt Getting started with GDB Python GDB’s Python API was introduced as part of GDB 7 0 (all the way back in 2009!) and continues to receive new features and improvements as gdb is updated (look for “Python” in the gdb release notes) Check if GDB was compiled with Python support The GDB Python API is a GDB compile time option that can be enabled (with the --with-python configuration argument
Exploring Python Using GDB - Stripe As of version 7 0 of GDB, it's possible to automatically script GDB's behavior, and even register your own code to pretty-print C types Python comes with its own hooks which can pretty-print Python types (such as PyObject *) and understand the Python stack These hooks are loaded automatically if you have the python2 7-dbg package installed on Ubuntu Whatever you're debugging, you should
Debugging Embedded Linux Platforms with GDB and Python As of release 7 0, GDB gained a compelling new capability: support for scripting debugging actions using a Python interpreter In this article, I take a look at how to drive GDB using Python and apply this knowledge to the vexatious issue of debugging an embedded Linux platform
Debugging Python C C++ extensions in gdb - Boom! Michael . . . Install the GDB Python-debugging extension Since version 7 0, gdb includes an embedded Python interpreter that can be used to write gdb extensions, changing how variables and backtraces are displayed CPython includes one such extension in its source tree that is useful for debugging Python itself and Python C extensions, in Tools gdb libpython py
GDB: The GNU Project Debugger GDB version 16 3 Version 16 3 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available for download See the ANNOUNCEMENT for details including changes in this release An errata list (PROBLEMS) and documentation are also available
Debugging Options (Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)) Debugging Options (Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC))On most systems that use stabs format, -g enables use of extra debugging information that only GDB can use; this extra information makes debugging work better in GDB but probably makes other debuggers crash or refuse to read the program If you want to control for certain whether to generate the extra information, use -gvms (see below