Re: How to tell gdb to exit?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:50:14AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to run gdb from a shell script,
> and everything works, except I can't get gdb to exit.  What I
> want to do is:
> 
>  1) set target to /dev/ttyS0
>  2) load an elf file
>  3) start it (continue)
>  4) exit gdb
> 
> Steps 1-3 work great, but at step 4) gdb won't accept a new
> command in human-interface mode, so this doesn't work:
> 
>   #!/bin/bash
>   h8300-elf-gdb <<EOF
>   set arch h8300h
>   target remote /dev/ttyS0
>   load test.elf
>   cont
>   quit
>   EOF
> 
> I tried "detach" instead of "cont" since the info file says
> that it continues exection, but it doesn't actual seem to do
> that for remote targets.

It should.  Whether it does or not depends on your remote stub, though.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz