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

[Duncan M. <dmu...@pa...>]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:20:16 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi Duncan,
>
>Duncan Murdoch <mi...@mu...> writes:
>> Is there a simple function or macro to put into code to trap to the
>> debugger (using Insight on top of gdb)?
>
>I haven't tried this myself with GCC/gdb, but with other compilers the
>equivalent of asm("int 3") works fine on Intel.

Thanks to all who responded.  This seems to be the simplest solution.
In GCC, the syntax is

  asm("int $3");

This will cause a break with Insight (the Cygwin version) stopped on
the line following.

Thanks!

Duncan Murdoch