From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21869 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2004 03:04:24 -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 21860 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2004 03:04:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu) (18.7.7.80) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 03:04:23 -0000 Received: from manawatu-mail-centre.mit.edu (MANAWATU-MAIL-CENTRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.71]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i0934N3j005253 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:04:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.67]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as nathanw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by manawatu-mail-centre.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i0934M8e022370 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:04:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (from nathanw@localhost) by contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (8.12.9) id i0934Mvu023189; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:04:22 -0500 (EST) To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: "break main; run" test From: "Nathan J. Williams" Organization: Wasabi Systems, Inc. Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 03:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00113.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? Or just whatever happens to be lying around and compiled with debug information (or even not with debug information)? - Nathan