Question

I’m working on an nvcc compiled static library for a g++ linked project. How do I use cuda-gdb on the final executable? All I get is “Program exited normally” without any printf output or anything.

nvcc is definitely being given the -g -G arguments when compiling the static library.

Here is my command line buffer:

cuda-gdb /home/sean/cuda-workspace/cudasplat/Debug/cudasplat 
NVIDIA (R) CUDA Debugger
5.0 release
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GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/sean/cuda-workspace/cudasplat/Debug/cudasplat...done.
(cuda-gdb) set args -t a1-31 a2-31 a3-31 a4-31 -L 30 -o tx_coverage -d /var/www/userman/plot-temp/ -db -85 -ngs -dbm -R 20
(cuda-gdb) run
Starting program: /home/sean/cuda-workspace/cudasplat/Debug/cudasplat -t a1-31 a2-31 a3-31 a4-31 -L 30 -o tx_coverage -d /var/www/userman/plot-temp/ -db -85 -ngs -dbm -R 20
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Exiting...

Program exited normally.
(cuda-gdb)

This is what normally happens without debugging:

/home/sean/cuda-workspace/cudasplat/Debug/cudasplat -t  a1-31 a2-31 a3-31 a4-31 -L 30 -o tx_coverage -d /var/www/userman/plot-temp/ -db -85 -ngs -dbm -R 20
            --==[ Welcome To CUDASPLAT! HD v1.4.0a ]==--

Loading "51:52:113:114-hd.sdf" into page 1... Done!
Loading "50:51:113:114-hd.sdf" into page 2... Done!
Loading "50:51:114:115-hd.sdf" into page 3... Done!
Loading "51:52:114:115-hd.sdf" into page 4... Done!
copying 444 mb into device memory (3878 mb free)
finished copy
min_north 50, max_north 52, min_west 113, max_west 115
allocated antenna memory
invalid argument in ../cudapath.cu at line 551

Answer 1

1. You should set a breakpoint before issuing a run command.
2. Does your application perform proper error checking? Note that cuda-gdb may “hide” GPUs used to render you OS graphical interface. E.g. if you have a single GPU system and run CUDA application from cuda-gdb in windowing environment (such as GTK or KDE) you application may fail because no GPUs will be detected.