Debugging Octave
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Preliminaries
Since compilation of all the source from scratch can take long it is good to have a source folder where most of the source has been compiled. To do this ...
Workflow
- Clone the repository.
- Regenerate the scripts.
- Configure.
- Compile the code.
- Start debugging.
Basic debugging processes
Error & trace the stack
Debugging oct-files
Tools for debugging
GBD
To start Octave under gdb use the script run-octave at the top level of the source tree and run it with the command-line option -g like this
cd /octave/source/tree
./run-octave -g
Most used commands
Emacs
In short:
To start Octave in debug mode within emacs type
M-x gud-gdb
then change the command in the minibuffer to
Run gud-gdb (like this): /path/to/octave/source/tree/run-octave -gud
For more info use this
link
to the emacs manual section on debuggers operation
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