<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Follow-up thought: since gdb is a debugger, does this mean I should have compiled the original executable with debugging symbols? (Something I almost never do for a production executable.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Bernard</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 at 11:28, Bernard Kelly <<a href="mailto:physicsbeany@gmail.com">physicsbeany@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">Hi. I've frequently included Formaline in my ThornList, but never tried to use it to access the snapshot it saved of the codebase I compiled into a particular Cactus executable. Now I'm trying to use it, and I'm having problems.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">The documentation says I should invoke it thus:<br><br>> gdb -P formaline.py exe/cactus_sim</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">Since my executable sits in a different directory (bin) for production runs, what I actually run is the following, with the following failure message:<br><br>----------------------------<br>pfe20.bjkelly1 60> gdb -P formaline.py bin/cactus_sim_ET_2021_05_BC<br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "formaline.py", line 29, in <module><br> cactus_source = gdb.parse_and_eval("cactus_source")<br>gdb.error: No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">----------------------------<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong here?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">Thanks, Bernard</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Bernard Kelly -- CRESST Assistant Research Scientist, NASA/GSFC<br>Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory --- Code 663<br> <br>Phone: +1 (301) 286-7243 *** Fax: +1 (301) 286-2226<br>Web: <a href="http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/bernard.j.kelly" target="_blank">http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/bernard.j.kelly</a><br>ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3326-4454" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0002-3326-4454</a><br>------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Bernard Kelly -- CRESST Assistant Research Scientist, NASA/GSFC<br>Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory --- Code 663<br> <br>Phone: +1 (301) 286-7243 *** Fax: +1 (301) 286-2226<br>Web: <a href="http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/bernard.j.kelly" target="_blank">http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/bernard.j.kelly</a><br>ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3326-4454" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0002-3326-4454</a><br>------------------------------------------------------------------</div>