Date:	Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:17:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	Ian Romanick <idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Debug before main?
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:
>
>> Now when I set a breakpoint on test_call() and 'run' the program, GDB
>> signalled that 'Program has exited wit SIGFPE'. I thought I made a mistake
>> somewhere (?) but the program was working ok from cmdline. Then it ocurred to
>> me that it might be a problem with the FPU emulation. Is it?
>
>That one's in the FAQ (section 12.9): you cannot debug programs that use 
>floating point on FPU-less machines, unless you use WMEMU as your 
>emulator.  In general, the DJGPP debugger support is incompatible with 
>signals (the debugger gets the signals instead of the debuggee).
Oops! Haven't read it... [blush] ;-)))


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