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

[Christopher F. <cg...@re...>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:33:58AM +1100, Chris Johns wrote:
>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.

It does.  In the cygwin version of gdb you can say:

dll foo.dll

and then set breakpoints on line numbers, prior to running the program.
Any modern debugger should have similar functionality.

cgf