Mirror of the gdb mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@googlemail.com>
To: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Detecting when gdb is attached
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=FUV7eu7UchycWj-oL7QtgoQW6cUrOpF5QZ3K5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <372C920CA9488345BDECCD4B62FF71D00F717855E5@DEWDFECCR08.wdf.sap.corp>

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Gruenhagen, Andreas
<andreas.gruenhagen@sap.com> wrote:
> I'm developing an application which cannot be started from
> within the gdb. Therefore, I have the start the application and
> attach the gdb afterwards. In some cases it would be nice to
> have the application wait in a spin loop until the debugger is
> attached. Is there any way of accomplishing such a thing?

how should the application know whether to enter the wait loop
until gdb is attached or run as usual?

> I thought of having some sort of action which is executed when
> the gdb is attached and detached, this could be for example
> used to switch a static flag in the debugee.  Is something like
> this possible ?

via ~/.gdbinit for example you could simply try:

print some_sort_of_action()

to invoke the function some_sort_of_action in the application
maybe?

oki,

Steffen


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04 13:40 Gruenhagen, Andreas
2010-11-04 16:19 ` Doug Evans
2010-11-04 17:26 ` paawan oza
2010-11-10 14:57 ` Steffen Dettmer [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='AANLkTi=FUV7eu7UchycWj-oL7QtgoQW6cUrOpF5QZ3K5@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=steffen.dettmer@googlemail.com \
    --cc=gdb@sourceware.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox