Getting GDB to save a list of breakpoints

Question

OK, info break lists the breakpoints, but not in a format that would work well with reusing them using the --command as in this question. Does GDB have a method for

Answer 1

Extension to the answer from Johannes: you could automatically reformat the output of info break into a valid GDB command file:

.gdbinit:

define bsave
   shell rm -f brestore.txt
   set logging file brestore.txt
   set logging on
   info break
   set logging off
   # Reformat on-the-fly to a valid gdb command file
   shell perl -n -e 'print "break $1\n" if /^\d+.+?(\S+)$/g' brestore.txt > brestore.gdb
end
document bsave
  store actual breakpoints
end

Afterwards you have a valid commandfile in brestore.gdb.

This worked for me when the application is compiled with -g.

I also successfully tested it with GDB v6.8 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).