From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12153 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2003 06:18:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12146 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2003 06:18:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web60102.mail.yahoo.com) (216.109.118.81) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 2003 06:18:18 -0000 Message-ID: <20031001061818.32778.qmail@web60102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.199.140.162] by web60102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:18:18 PDT Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:18:00 -0000 From: ankit thukral Subject: Internal breakpoints To: gdb@sources.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 hi all, i was debugging a program using GDB (in linux) and realized that GDB puts some breakpoints of it's own known as internal breakpoints.they are visible on issuing the following command : (gdb) maintainence info breakpoints -2 shlib events keep y 0x4000c9c0 <_dl_debug_state_internal> breakpoint already hit 3 times -7 longjmp keep n 0x4000f870 -8 longjmp keep n 0x42027240 -9 longjmp keep n 0x42027240 -10 longjmp resume keep n 0x00000000 can anyone explain to me in detail what are these for? thanks in advance, ankit. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com