Tell gdb to skip standard files

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gdb 7.12 supports file globbing to specify the files to skip in the debugger. The documentation for the same is as below:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Skipping-Over-Functions-and-Files.html

To skip stepping into all library headers in the directory /usr/include/c++/5/bits, add the below lines to ~/.gdbinit

# To skip all .h files in /usr/include/c++/5/bits
skip -gfi /usr/include/c++/5/bits/*.h

Instead to skip a specific file, say stl_vector.h, add the below lines to ~/.gdbinit

# To skip the file /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_vector.h
skip file /usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_vector.h

Doing the above with gdb 7.11 and below version leads to the below error:

Ignore function pending future shared library load? (y or [n]) [answered N; input not from terminal]

However, gdb 7.12 seems to have solved the above issue.

This blog addresses the same problem for gdb version 7.11 or below.

Note – You can use the below command from the gdb command prompt to list all the files marked for skipping

info skip

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