Subject: Re: How to set breakpoints before mainCRTStartup?
From: Ralf Habacker <[email-masked]>
To: Dalibor Topic <[email-masked]>, Steve Coleman <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:07:20 +0100

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 18:23, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> >>> in my attempts to fix an ugly bug in kaffe on Cygwin, the bug I'm
> >>> trying to squish turned out to be triggered by something that happens
> >>> *before* main is called.
> >
you can set a breakpoint at the application entry point. 
$ gdb /bin/bash
<snip>
(gdb) info file
Symbols from "/usr/bin/bash.exe".
Local exec file:
        `/usr/bin/bash.exe', file type pei-i386.
        Entry point: 0x401000
        0x00401000 - 0x0047b754 is .text
        0x0047c000 - 0x00480d90 is .data
        0x00481000 - 0x00488f60 is .bss
        0x00489000 - 0x0048a12c is .idata
(gdb) b *0x401000
Breakpoint 1 at 0x401000
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/bash.exe

Breakpoint 1, 0x00401000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Ralf 

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