[gmx-developers] problem with debugging

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:08, Olesya Ivanova wrote:
> Dear gromacs developers!
> I wrote my own analyzing program using your template
> and want to debug it with DDD(I tried kdevelop too).
> This is a part of my source code:
> #include confio.h
> void some_function(char* conf_fn)
> {int natom;
>  get_stx_coordnum(conf_fn,&natom);
>  printf("%d",natom);
> }
> after executing of get_stx_coordnum debugger displays
> strange value of natom,which differs from that one, i
> saw as a result of  printf. It seems that the function
> executed correctly, but debugger didn't "see" that!
> And this mistake appears after calling of any gromacs
> library function!!!!  
> What is the reason of this problem?
> Can you advise me some other  debuggers (probably
> which you are using for Linux) or I'm doing something
> wrong?   
>  

I alwayas use gdb. Did you compile with CFLAGS=-g?

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Groeten, David.
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