From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Feb  1 10:52:59 2003
Subject: Re: debugging
From: torsten <torsten at inetw dot net>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, branganj <branganj@tcd.ie>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:49:09 -0500

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:06:34 -0600
branganj <branganj at tcd dot ie> wrote:

> Hi,
> I need to sieve through the source code for octave for my final year project.
> I'm not very good with gdb.  Can I use this? Like if octave is already 
> installed how do i use it? Should i compile it again using -g?????????
> What i really need to know from the debugger is where octave starts out?
> Which file reads in off the command line?  EG for the * operation?
> Thanks,
> Confused,
> Jill Brangan.

Using gdb requires compilation with the -g command.

you might want to find and isolate the code for analysis, copy the
functions into your own file - then write a driver program and analyze
only what you are interested in.

Torsten



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