Re: [Mingw-users] Trap to the debugger?

[Chris J. <cj...@cy...>]

Jeremy Bettis wrote:
> Background:  I came to mingw from the NeXT compiler.  NeXT's version of gdb
> had a feature called future-break, which was real handy, it would let you
> set a breakpoint in a dll and then it would hold it until the dll loaded and
> then set the breakpoint.
> 

I am not up on shared libs and GDB. I would have thought GDB would have 
had some support.

> My problem is that I have some dll functions that I need to break on, but
> since the dll's are runtime loaded, I can't set the breakpoint on them until
> it's too late, and with the state of ctrl-c handling in gdb, it wasn't
> likely that I was able to catch it in time.

I have been playing with the ^C and have something that is working. I 
need to clean it up and get a snapshot out.

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  Chris Johns, cjohns at cybertec . com . au