Re: break on C++ global objects ctors

Paul_Koning
2014-03-31T14:16:30Z

On Mar 31, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:56 AM, <Paul_Koning@dell.com> wrote:
>> This certainly should be easily doable, just in gdb. FWIW, if you start a program with gdbserver and then connect to it from gdb ("target remote" to gdbserver), the program is stopped at the first instruction, way before "main".
>
> That doesn't solve how gdb detects the beginning of each ctor function.

I don’t know what problem you’re referring to. A constructor is just a function, which has a name, and you can set a breakpoint on it.

If for some reason that’s not working, that would be a bug, but I’ve used breakpoints on constructors for a long time and it seems to work when I try it.

paul