GDBINIT(5)

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🎀 GDBINIT(5) 🎀

ok so this is a page from the GNU Development Tools manual — it's about gdbinit, the lil startup scripts that make ROCGDB do stuff automatically. bestie, buckle up 💅

✨ NAME ✨

gdbinit — GDB initialization scripts. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

~/.config/gdb/gdbinit
~/.gdbinit
./.gdbinit

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so these files are literally full of ROCGDB commands that get auto-executed while ROCGDB is starting up ✨. the lines of contents are canned sequences of commands — that's the official wording, and they're described in the ROCGDB manual in node "Sequences" — shell command info -f gdb -n Sequences.

please read more in the ROCGDB manual in node "Startup" — shell command info -f gdb -n Startup. like, actually read it, i'm not joking 🫶

  • (not enabled with --with-system-gdbinit during compilation) — system-wide initialization file 🌈. it gets executed unless the user specified ROCGDB option -nx or -n. see more in the ROCGDB manual in node "System-wide configuration" — shell command info -f gdb -n 'System-wide configuration'.
  • (not enabled with --with-system-gdbinit-dir during compilation) — system-wide initialization directory ⭐. all files in this directory are executed on startup unless the user specified ROCGDB option -nx or -n, as long as they have a recognized file extension 🔥. see more in the ROCGDB manual in node "System-wide configuration" — shell command info -f gdb -n 'System-wide configuration'.
  • ~/.config/gdb/gdbinit or ~/.gdbinit — user initialization file 💜. it gets executed unless the user specified ROCGDB options -nx, -n or -nh.
  • .gdbinit — initialization file for the current directory 🎀. it may need to be enabled with ROCGDB security command set auto-load local-gdbinit (yes, security, pay attention 👀). see more in the ROCGDB manual in node "Init File in the Current Directory" — shell command info -f gdb -n 'Init File in the Current Directory'.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

(empty. nothing here. the void. moving on 💀)

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

(also empty, iconic behavior, we respect it ✨)

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

  • gdb(1), "info -f gdb -n Startup"

the full documentation for ROCGDB is maintained as a Texinfo manual 📚. if the "info" and "gdb" programs and ROCGDB's Texinfo documentation are properly installed at your site, the command

info gdb

should give you access to the complete manual 🫶.

also: Using GDB: A Guide to the GNU Source-Level Debugger, Richard M. Stallman and Roland H. Pesch, July 1991 — a classic, an absolute legend, we stan 🌟

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okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this one's from version gdb-16.3, dated 2026-05-31 — go forth and configure your startup scripts, i believe in you 🦋💖

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