From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
To: brobecker@gnat.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA/RFC] New command: ``start''
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 20:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <20040518202155.D5FA44B104@berman.michael-chastain.com>
X-SW-Source: 2004-05/msg00537.html

jb> Some programs contain an elaboration phase where some startup code is
jb> executed before the main program is called.  This depends on the
jb> languages used to write your program. In C@t{++} for instance,
jb> constructors for static and global objects are executed before
jb> @code{main} is called.  It is therefore possible that the debugger stops
jb> before reaching the main procedure.  However, the temporary breakpoint
jb> will remain to halt execution.

It works for me!

Michael C