Re: [Mingw-users] GDB: howto pause a running program ?

[Oscar F. <of...@wa...>]

"Francois Ferrand" <fra...@en...> writes:

> I am trying to do some debugging using GDB (with emacs as a front end).
> When I run a program from GDB, (without setting any breakpoint) is there a
> way to tell GDB to "pause" the execution of the program ? So that it return
> control to me and allows me to examine what the application is doing
> (actually, it seems my application is deadlocked, so I would like to know
> where/why).
[snip]

If you app is console-mode, just press Control-C. Afterwards, you can
use the 'thread' command to switch to the thread you want ('thread 1'
for the main thread) and you will be able to obtain a stack trace.

I don't know how to pause GUI apps.

HTH

-- 
Oscar