Commit 4601eae6 authored by Alberto Donizetti's avatar Alberto Donizetti Committed by Ian Lance Taylor

doc/gdb: mention GOTRACEBACK=crash

Also fix a couple of other errors.

Fixes #6877

Change-Id: I94c81c5847cc7b0adab19418e71687bc2ee7fe94
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/34960Reviewed-by: 's avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent 4c4c5fc7
......@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
}-->
<p><i>
This applies to the <code>gc</code> toolchain. Gccgo has native gdb support.
This applies to the standard toolchain (the <code>gc</code> Go
compiler and tools). Gccgo has native gdb support.
Besides this overview you might want to consult the
<a href="http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/">GDB manual</a>.
</i></p>
......@@ -49,6 +50,14 @@ when debugging, pass the flags <code>-gcflags "-N -l"</code> to the
debugged.
</p>
<p>
If you want to use gdb to inspect a core dump, you can trigger a dump
on a program crash, on systems that permit it, by setting
<code>GOTRACEBACK=crash</code> in the environment (see the
<a href="/pkg/runtime/#hdr-Environment_Variables"> runtime package
documentation</a> for more info).
</p>
<h3 id="Common_Operations">Common Operations</h3>
<ul>
......@@ -130,7 +139,7 @@ the DWARF code.
<p>
If you're interested in what the debugging information looks like, run
'<code>objdump -W 6.out</code>' and browse through the <code>.debug_*</code>
'<code>objdump -W a.out</code>' and browse through the <code>.debug_*</code>
sections.
</p>
......@@ -377,7 +386,9 @@ $3 = struct hchan&lt;*testing.T&gt;
</pre>
<p>
That <code>struct hchan&lt;*testing.T&gt;</code> is the runtime-internal representation of a channel. It is currently empty, or gdb would have pretty-printed it's contents.
That <code>struct hchan&lt;*testing.T&gt;</code> is the
runtime-internal representation of a channel. It is currently empty,
or gdb would have pretty-printed its contents.
</p>
<p>
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