Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/17/06:56:35
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:55:08AM -0500, Doug Bohl wrote:
> When running a Windows application from GDB, GDB gives control to the
> application at a certain point. It would be nice to, at an arbitrary
> time, suspend the application and give control back to GDB. I know
> that I can set breakpoints, but sometimes I don't know exactly when I
> want to break until after I'm running the application. Ctrl-C
> supposedly sends the SIGINT signal to GDB, breaking the running
> application and restoring control to GDB. However, this does not
> appear to work, at least not on Cygwin.
Even though this may seem strange, try this. Before starting GDB, type
'tty' at the console. Then, after you start GDB, run the command 'tty
outputofttycommandfromconsole'. I think this will enable the ^c.
It's a bug in GDB that hopefully I'll get to look at one day.
Bob Rossi
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