Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/17/10:15:31
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 06:56:55AM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
>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.
This is a no-voodoo zone.
CTRL-C works fine in gdb. I use it ALL of the time.
Maybe the OP has CYGWIN=tty set or is trying to run from rxvt. If so,
don't do that. Run gdb from a windows console and it should work fine.
cgf
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