From: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:27:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: README_DEVELOPERS: Debugging a tool needs "--tool=..."
X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_8_0~16
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README_DEVELOPERS: Debugging a tool needs "--tool=..."

Otherwise the function redirections / client requests seem
to get confused. Symptoms are error messages such as
--3031-- VG_USERREQ__CLIENT_CALL1: func=0x0

git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12852
---

diff --git a/README_DEVELOPERS b/README_DEVELOPERS
index de8082ba05..2201fd63c8 100644
--- a/README_DEVELOPERS
+++ b/README_DEVELOPERS
@@ -111,9 +111,10 @@ without too much problem by following these steps:
 
     (gdb) b vgPlain_do_exec
 
-(5) Run the tool with required options:
+(5) Run the tool with required options (the --tool option is required
+    for correct setup), e.g.
 
-    (gdb) run pwd
+    (gdb) run --tool=lackey pwd
 
 Steps (1)--(3) can be put in a .gdbinit file, but any directory names must
 be fully expanded (ie. not an environment variable).