From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24576 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2004 03:16:16 -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 24569 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2004 03:16:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO barry.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 03:16:16 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Aen8C-0006YE-00; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 22:16:16 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 412084B35A; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:16:21 -0500 (EST) To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, nathanw@wasabisystems.com Subject: Re: "break main; run" test Message-Id: <20040109031621.412084B35A@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 03:16:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00114.txt.bz2 > When people refer to the test of starting gdb on a program, setting a > breakpoint on "main", and running to that point, is there a particular > standard test program in mind? "Hello world"? The GDB binary itself? You are right; it is ambiguous. To me, it usually means "the gdb binary itself", since the gdb binary is a large program and it's guaranteed to exist. Sometimes it means "hello world", and sometimes it means "any random program". Michael C