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Tips and Tricks
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You can use breakpoints as bookmarks: Just set a breakpoint and disable
it. Later, you can quickly come back to that breakpoint by double-clicking
it in the breakpoint list (or select it and click View Code). Since
breakpoints are persistent (i.e. KDbg remembers them across invocations
of a program), you get them back next time you invoke KDbg for that particular
program.
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You can display a value in the watch section in different ways by prepending
gdb's format specifiers in front of the variable to display. E.g. /x
var.member displays the var.member in hexadecimal notation.
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You can set breakpoints in a source files that belong to a shared library.
Such breakpoints will be marked as orphaned if the program is not active.
Orphaned breakpoints are not effective.
In order to make them effective, the program must stop at a time when the shared
library is loaded. For this it is usually sufficient to set a breakpoint in
main(). At the time when this breakpoint is hit, the orphaned breakpoints
in the shared library become effective.