[ns] Can anyone tell me how to debug ns2 2.33 using gdb? No successful examples could have been googled yet.

[Waleed Tuffaha]

Hello Matt,

A while ago I followed the steps in that FAQ to enable the debugging in ns2
and it worked fine with me. I used gdb to debug my C++ code as follows:
gdb ns
run my_tcl_script.tcl

My code used to give me segmentation fault and I used gdb to find out where
the problem was.
I debug my Tcl code using "puts" to print on the output what is happening. I
know it is not much efficient but till now it was sufficient.

Best regards,

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:37 AM, matt Wood <withhighprob at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear friends,
>      I've read the ns-doc chap24 and chap28, and followed the
> instructions (Q3) found in http://web.syr.edu/~dchen02/FAQ.txt<http://web.syr.edu/%7Edchen02/FAQ.txt>,
>  but
> when I try to debug using '$gdb ns' it says: no debugging symbols
> found.
>
>     Same questions can be found in the mail-list but they still
> remain unresolved. Please tell me if this  2.33-allinone can be
> debugged by gdb. And if it is not, what debugging method can I use  if
> I want to add a new MAC protocol?
>
>     Thank you in advance.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Matthew Wood
>
>


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Waleed Tuffaha.