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Choosing modes

You can run GDB in various alternative modes—for example, in batch mode or quiet mode.

-nx

-n
Do not execute commands from any initialization files (normally called ‘.gdbinit’). Normally, the commands in these files are executed after all the command options and arguments have been processed. See Command files.

-quiet

-q
Quiet. Do not print the introductory and copyright messages. These messages are also suppressed in batch mode.

-batch
Run in batch mode. Exit with status 0 after processing all the command files specified with ‘-x’ (and all commands from initialization files, if not inhibited with ‘-n’). Exit with nonzero status if an error occurs in executing the GDB commands in the command files.

Batch mode may be useful for running GDB as a filter, for example to download and run a program on another computer; in order to make this more useful, the following message does not issue when running in batch mode (ordinarily, the message issues whenever a program running under GDB control terminates).

Program exited normally.

-cd directory
Run GDB using directory as its working directory, instead of the current directory.

-fullname

-f
GNU Emacs sets this option when it runs GDB as a subprocess. It tells GDB to output the full file name and line number in a standard, recognizable fashion each time a stack frame is displayed (which includes each time your program stops). This recognizable format looks like two ‘\032’ characters, followed by the file name, line number and character position separated by colons, and a newline. The Emacs-to-GDB interface program uses the two ‘\032’ characters as a signal to display the source code for the frame.

-b bps
Set the line speed (baud rate or bits per second) of any serial interface used by GDB for remote debugging.

-tty device
Run using device for your program’s standard input and output.