[mpich-discuss] ddd to debug mpich

Pavan Balaji balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Thu May 15 10:06:22 CDT 2008


Try this:

   mpiexec -n 4 ddd ./myprog

  -- Pavan

On 05/15/2008 07:58 AM, Manal Helal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to get ddd to debug mpi jobs to speed things up, gdb takes a 
> long time for me, and I need a free GUI debugger,
> 
> I debug with gdb using:
> 
>>mpirun -gdb  -np 4 ./myprog
> 
> I found online the ddd command to be like this:
> 
>>mpirun -dbg=ddd -np 4 ./myprog
> 
> and it says:
> invalid "local" arg: -dbg=ddd
> 
> I can not find the mpirun_dbg.ddd or mpirun_dbg.gdb after the 
> installation and don't know if I should add them, and how and what to 
> write in them,
> 
> I am having the following version information:
> MPICH2 Version:         1.0.7
> MPICH2 Release date:    Unknown, built on Thu May 15 22:00:19 EST 2008
> MPICH2 Device:          ch3:sock
> MPICH2 configure:       -prefix=/home/mhelal/mpich2-install 
> --enable-error-checking=all --enable-error-messages=all --enable-g=all 
> --enable-debuginfo --enable-threads=multiple --enable-sharedlibs=gcc 
> --with-thread-package=posix --with-namepublisher=mpd --enable-mpe
> MPICH2 CC:      gcc  -g -O2
> MPICH2 CXX:     c++  -g -O2
> MPICH2 F77:     f95  -g -O2
> MPICH2 F90:     f95  -g -O2
> 
> 
> thank you very much for your help in advance,
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Manal

-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji




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