Question

Very raw with C. I’m writing a program that takes files as it’s arguments, but this is rather annoying for debugging (GDB). Rather than have to re-type the file list each time that I start off in GDB, I’d rather store the file names in an array and modify the program to read this array rather than the argv[] values.

I started out with

FILE*[5] inpFiles;
inpFiles[0] = &file1.txt;

but this is all wrong. I need to get some sort of reference to each of the input files so that I can get its memory address.

How can I do this? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can define a GDB command in .gdbinit so you don’t need to modify your production code.
For example, add the following lines in your ~/.gdbinit or .gdbinit in your working directory.

define do
    run file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt
end

Then, in GDB, just type the command do, and GDB runs run file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt for you.