[Asterisk-Dev] How do you debug Asterisk?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Steve Edwards wrote:

> How do you set breakpoints in the code? Do you set a breakpoint in the 
> module loader and then set the breakpoint after your module is loaded? 
> Do you link a "monotlithic" executable?

You can set the breakpoint for a function name even before the module is 
loaded, and gdb will insert it when the module loads. If you  need to 
set a breakpoint on a particular line of code, though, or a watchpoint 
based on variables, you have to wait until the module is loaded.

Keep also in mind that using gdb (or any debugger) on a multi-threaded 
application is very... well, interesting. It can be very hard to keep 
track of what is going on when other threads are continuing to change 
things.