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Date:	Wed, 5 May 2004 15:23:17 -0500
From:	Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To:	Joshua Kolden <joshua AT crackcreative DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: intel ddd cygwin
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Just some WAGs:

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Joshua Kolden wrote:

> When attempting to start debugging on a simple helloWorld program ddd
> seems to hang waiting for a responds from idb (the intel's debugger)
>
> > ddd --debugger "idb -gdb" helloWorld.exe
>
> I get:
>
> "Reading Symbols from helloWorld.exe...done."
>
> ...then nothing.  If I try any other action in ddd, such as "run" I get:
>
> "Run: waiting until GDB gets ready"

IIRC, ddd uses ttys to talk to the inferior debugger.  Try CYGWIN=tty, but
since idd is not a Cygwin application, it may not help any.

> Which never does get ready.  However, when I run idb by hand it responds
> like gdb.  Anyone have any experience with this?

Are you sure that idb's gdb emulation is exact?

Just a couple guesses...

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Brian Ford
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